Popeye is nearly 100 years old, and his debut appearance is still just as funny today as it was in the 1920s, and shows why ...

It's a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According ...

In the U.S., the length of copyright protection for works published before 1978 is 95 years. That means works from 1929 and ...

"Tintin enters the U.S. public domain in 2025 but is still copyrighted in the E.U. until 2054, because the author died in ...

who first appeared in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre comic strip, with a story titled “Gobs of Work.” But this Popeye isn’t the one that eats spinach to grow big muscles; the brawny sailor ...

Good Housekeeping awarded Popeye the “Good Housekeeping Nutritionist Approved Emblem” in their January/February 2024 issue. Popeye is the first "person" to receive this honor.

Or maybe some not-so-recent funnies. Liô, where we grabbed our feature image from, is in reruns this week but the Friday ...

What was supposed to be a one-off appearance became permanent, and the strip would be renamed ”Popeye.” That movie was ...

A similar situation could play out with Popeye, who first appeared on Jan. 17, 1929, in the comic strip Thimble Theatre. That version alone — and not the Popeye who began appearing in animated ...

January 17, is remembered in history as the day Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny set foot in Moscow after five months ...

By Travis Fischer, [email protected] It’s a new year and that means a new wave of classic media has entered into ...

The Marx Brothers’ first movie, the early iterations of the comic strip character Popeye, and Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms” are all entering the public domain on Jan. 1 ...