I tried to find an example online but best I could manage was this reference..
http://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/popeye-the-crossdressing-man/ Quote:in his earliest comic strip incarnation in the 1930s, Popeye was shown to be an active and enthusiastic cross-dresser. As Boyd writes, “as I was reading the most recent Popeye volume (reprinting strips from December 1933 to July 1935), I came across something weird. Cartoonist E.C. Segar repeatedly has Popeye wearing women’s clothes–and liking it.”