You may have noticed that Popeye the Sailor Man has been in the news now that the character, or at least his earliest comic strip appearances, has entered the public domain. What this means is that ...

Popeye appears to be joining the pipeline from children’s cartoon protagonist to menacing villain. Jennifer Jenkins, the director of Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain ...

Popeye is among a slew of 1929 characters and works, as well as 1924 sound recordings, that entered the public domain on January 1, 2025. These include more Mickey Mouse cartoons and Disney’s ...

Over the course of the past few years, several popular characters from television and movies have entered the public domain.

Once again our spinach chomping hero Popeye saves the day in 10 of his most treasured cartoons from the last 75 years Revel in the Oscar nominated cartoon Popeye the Sailor meets Sinbad the Sailor ...

‘Oh, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!’ Most people know Popeye as a tough, spinach-eating sailor, a cartoon character created by American cartoonist E. C. Segar. But did you know who the real-life ...