You may have noticed that Popeye the Sailor Man has been in the news now that the character, or at least his earliest comic ...

Following recent notable additions to the public domain that include Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse from Disney’s 1928 short Steamboat Willie, and Winnie the Pooh, 2025 has ...

And what greater honor could there be than putting Popeye the Sailor in a bunch of videogames he probably shouldn't be in? First appearing in 1929 as a side character in the comic strip Thimble ...

and the spinach-chomping comic strip hero is the latest beloved character to be turned into a bloodthirsty killer for an upcoming indie project. This will be the first of two (so far) Popeye ...

Curiously, the Polish word ‘Figiel’ means ‘joke’ or ‘prank’, a rather fitting surname for the protoplast of a comic strip hero… But whether Rocky himself knew that he became the inspiration for Popeye ...

The animated short 'Munro,' based on Feiffer's story, was the first non-American animated film to win the Academy Award for ...

Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. The comic strip adaptation Popeye hit theaters in December 1980. Directed by Robert Altman, it starred Robin Williams as the iconic ...

This year's crop includes internationally recognized figures such as the comic character Tintin, who made his debut in a Belgian newspaper in 1929, and Popeye the Sailor, created by cartoonist ...

Jules Feiffer, a Pultizer Prize-winning cartoonist and author who also wrote the screenplay for films, including Carnal Knowledge and Popeye, has died.

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public ...