Elzie Crisler Segar was a cartoonist, best known as the creator of Popeye, a pop culture character who first appeared in 1929 in Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre.
Not sure if this was the edition I read. Segar added several words to the English language, including 'goon'. Some people also argue that 'jeep' was introduced by Segar, since they say that Eugene The Jeep (a teleportational character) was introduced before the word came into common use.