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.

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who ... the 1983 death of his creator. The books becoming public this year read ...

With the copyrights for these books expiring ... Segar and first appeared in 1929 on a comic strip called Thimble Theatre. The strip was later renamed Popeye, and after Segar’s death, various ...

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 ...