Next year, Popeye goes full public domain, like Winnie The Pooh and Steamboat Willie/Mickey Mouse. So in the final year of ownership, King Features has got Massive Publishing to pay the license for ...

As of January 1, the 1929 comic strip adventures of Popeye have entered the public domain, which means that—as long as you tread carefully—you can, as noted at the outset, create your own Sailor Man ...

What if artists ranging from Kelley Jones (Batman, The Sandman) to Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell created their own takes on the legendary comic strip and cartoon character Popeye? The result is ...

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, ...

Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf was E.C. Segar’s young assistant on Popeye in the 1930s. When Segar died in 1938, King Features Syndicate considered Sagendorf too young to take over the comic strip. Instead, ...

The release of Steamboat Willie into the public domain has resulted in numerous Mickey Mouse adjacent projects going into production. Most of these are horror themed, with two horror movies and a ...

Popeye the Sailor Man is pushing 100 these days, but he's still scarfing down spinach and clobbering bullies as readily as he was back in 1929. To celebrate Popeye's enduring pop culture appeal, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Popeye was created by E.C. Segar in 1929, and has been a constant presence in pop culture since.

“I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach.” Popeye sang that lyric in many of the cartoons starring the super-strong Sailor Man. Indeed, he is so synonymous with spinach that he is still used ...

Comics "He's the greatest superhero you've never heard of," with a rogues gallery "right up there with Batman or Spider-Man": Dynamite's smash hit Space Ghost comic gets new volume that takes the '60s ...

Among the observations to be gleaned from a new volume edited by Peter Maresca, “Thimble Theater and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar,” is that Olive Oyl was not always a paragon of gangly ...