Editing E. C. Segar (section)

==Popeye & Friends Character Trail==
In 1977, Segar's hometown of Chester, Illinois, named a park in his honor. The park contains a six-foot-tall bronze statue of Popeye. The annual Popeye Picnic, a weekend-long event that celebrates the character with a parade, film festival and other activities, is held the first weekend after Labor Day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterill.com/index.php?id=41 |title=City of Chester, Illinois .::. Home of Popeye – Segar Park |publisher=Chesterill.com |access-date=May 12, 2011}}</ref> In 2006, Chester launched the "Popeye & Friends Character Trail", which links a series of statues of Segar's characters located throughout town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterill.com/character-trail/ |title=City of Chester, Illinois: Popeye Character Trail| publisher=Chesterill.com |access-date=August 21, 2013}}</ref> Each stands on a base inscribed with the names of donors who contributed to its cost and is unveiled and dedicated during the Popeye Picnic. The 2006 debut sculpture of hamburger-loving Wimpy stands in Gazebo Park. A statue of Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea and the Jeep, located near the Randolph County Courthouse, followed in 2007. In 2008, a [[Bluto]] statue was dedicated at the corner of Swanwick and W. Holmes Streets, in front of Buena Vista Bank. The 2009 statue of Castor Oyl and Bernice the Whiffle Hen stands in front of Chester Memorial Hospital. One additional statue has been unveiled each year.

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! style="width:33px;"|Year
! style="width:210px;"|Character(s)
! style="width:210px;"|Location
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2010
|SeaHag/Bernard
|McDonald's/Walmart
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2011
|Cole Oyl
|Chester Public Library
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2012
|Alice the Goon
|Chester Center
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2013
|Poopdeck Pappy
|Cohen Complex
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2014
|Prof. Watasnozzle
|Chester High School
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2015
|RoughHouse
|Reids' Harvest House
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2016
|Nephews-Peepeye/Poopeye/Pipeye/Pupeye
|Chester Grade School
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2017
|King Blozo
|Chester City Hall
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2018
|Nana Oyl
|Manor at Craig's Farm
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2019
|Popeye's Pups
|Chester Firehouse
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2019
|Sherlock & Segar
|Baskerville Hall on Swanwick Street
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2020
|Toar
|St Nicholas Landmark
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 2021
|[[Harold Hamgravy]]
|Randolph County Courthouse
|}

Spinach Can Collectibles/Popeye Museum is located in the center of the city (Opera House).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterill.com/character-trail/|title=City of Chester, Illinois .::. Home of Popeye – Character Trail Page |publisher=Chesterill.com |access-date=May 12, 2011}}</ref>

On December 8, 2009, Google celebrated Segar's 115th birthday with a [https://doodles.google/doodle/ec-segars-birthday/ Google Doodle of Popeye.] The doodle used Popeye's body as the 'g', had 'oogl', drawn to resemble Segar's drawing style, and a spinach can as the 'e', and featured Popeye punching the 'oogl' to cause the spinach to fly at him through the air.