Popeye #5

Popeye turns artist on this charming cover by Bruce Ozella, showing the one-eyed sailor hunched over a drawing board, penciling away at a colorful comic strip while Swee'Pea sits nearby on the floor with his own pencil, apparently inspired to try his hand at the craft too — a can of spinach standing in as a makeshift pencil holder completes the delightful scene. It's a wonderfully self-aware image that celebrates the art of cartooning itself, perfectly suited to IDW's 2012 revival of this beloved character. Roger Langridge's story "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" promises plenty of the good-natured adventure that makes Popeye such an enduring pleasure.