Popeye remains the world's greatest spinach salesman nearly a century after he made his comic-strip debut on the eve of the Great Depression. The sailor man's legend is recounted every March 26 ...

The early version of the cartoon sailor is now in public domain, and he's already the star of a slasher movie.

Thimble Theatre would go on to launch one of the funniest, most popular comic strip characters of all time. Popeye rose to ...

Curiously, the Polish word ‘Figiel’ means ‘joke’ or ‘prank’, a rather fitting surname for the protoplast of a comic strip hero… But whether Rocky himself knew that he became the inspiration for Popeye ...

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 ...