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Bluto Gasping Original Production Popeye Art Cel

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Bluto Gasping Original Production Popeye Art Cel
Bluto is Popeye's nemesis; he, like Popeye, is attracted to Olive Oyl, and usually attempts to kidnap her. However, with the help of some spinach, Popeye usually ends up defeating him. It is generally consistent that Bluto is not highly intelligent, generally acting without thinking and utilizing brute force, which often signals his defeat at the hands of Popeye. On rare occasions Bluto tries to sabotage Popeye before engaging in plans, such as when he tried to thwart a foreseeable fight by using a forklift to steal Popeye's store of spinach cans, then laughing as he disposes of them in a garbage dump. Bluto is often portrayed as having a glass jaw. He has, on occasion, been knocked out by Olive Oyl and even by Popeye's infant ward Swee'Pea. Bluto is a large, bearded, muscle-bound fellow. He mostly uses his physical brawn to accomplish what he is trying to do, but does display some ability for tactical planning. His voice is a very loud, harsh and deep one, with a bear-like growl between sentences or between words in sentences, and which growling contains words that often can't be comprehended Here it look like something has taken Bluto's breath away... Could it be Olive? Original Animation Cel Overall Size of the Cel: 13" x 14" Very Good Condition This is an original hand-painted cel set-up used in the production of an episode of "Popeye." Each one-of-a-kind set-up represents a slight change in position of the characters. When individually photographed and projected in rapid succession, the images appear to move. To create production cels, the original animator's drawing is transferred onto an acetate cel (by hand-inking and/or photo copying). The cel is then hand-painted on the reverse side. The cel is ready to be matted and framed. The top of the cel is slightly creased.