In 1978, London won the Jury Yellow Kid Award for Best Artist-Writer. Beginning in 1986, London wrote and drew the Popeye syndicated daily comic strip for King Features Syndicate until 1992, when he was fired for doing an allegory about abortion. London's full Popeye run was eventually reprinted by IDW in 2014, as the two-volume "Popeye: The Classic Newspaper Comics by Bobby London".