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

Jules Feiffer, the screenwriter behind Carnal Knowledge, Popeye and the author of countless books, dies at 95.

Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. The ...

This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.

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 ...

The very first appearance of Popeye the Sailor, as seen in Thimble Theatre comic strip, "Gobs of Work" At the top of the list is Popeye, but before you crack open your celebratory can of spinach ...

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 ...

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and humorist touched every American popular artform in ...

The first iteration of Popeye the Sailor, literary classics by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, and songs like “Singin’ in the Rain” and ...

In 1980, he wrote “Popeye” for Robert Altman, based on the classic comic strip character, that was a co-production of Paramount and Disney. Initially thought of as a disappointment ...

In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.