popeye's appearance is always the most difficult for cartoonists to duplicate because, as sagendorf once pointed out, there is nothing normal about it. sagendorf went on to admit that after approximately a year of attempting to do so as segar's apprentice, he had to ask segar to draw the character for him; he explained, "it turned out that if you didn't draw the eyebrows and eyes first, the nose second, the head third and the chin last, you were dead."