Missed Selfie Day yesterday:(. But it did give me an occasion to reflect on a 'selfie' - i.e. relatable hero - of the 20th century, J. Wellington Wimpy, from the creator of Popeye cartoons, E. C. Segar(1894-1938).
Initially, the newspaper where Segar worked had an amusing custom that whoever accepted an invitation to a hamburger lunch got to pick up the tab. By 1934, Wimpy was a full-blown financier of hamburgers.
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