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 ...

But there's a catch: Popeye didn't start deriving his strength from spinach until 1932. As Jenkins explains, many cartoon characters develop over time and have been in copyrighted works year after ...

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.

17, 1929, in the comic strip Thimble Theatre. That version alone — and not the Popeye who began appearing in animated shorts five years later — will enter the public domain in 2025.

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.

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With every new year comes new works that are set ... Also being freed into the public domain are Popeye and Tintin’s early cartoons. Which hopefully means that since they can be adapted and ...