Austin Wells and Trent Grisham are back in the starting lineup for the New York Yankees in their series finale against ...

He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Mafalda,” the comic strip in which she appeared, was published in Argentina from 1964 to 1973, and remained a cultural ...

The cover of the first issue of Captain America shows the superhero punching Hitler in the face. Jack Kirby, the man who drew it in 1940, went on to fight in World War II against that real-life ...

Tea Fougner, who parted ways with King Features early this year, has signed on as an Executive Editor with the comic book ...

Robert Altman's notorious live-action Popeye movie (starring Robin Williams as the titular sailor) was beset by all manner of ...

Popeye, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, made his debut on January 17, 1929 as a part of a comic strip titled Thimble Theatre, and instantly caught the attention of readers.

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

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.

Characters such as 'Popeye,' 'Buck Rogers,' and 'Tintin' are among the list of works falling into the public domain as of 2025. This as the copyright expires on works produced in 1929.