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 ...

When most people think of Popeye, we probably think about a hard-hitting sailor man fueled by a love for canned spinach. But the real inspiration for the rowdy animated mariner came from someone who ...

Anyone who grew up on the Popeye television series thinks of him as a Navy sailor. But that's not where he started in E.C. Segar's original comic strip back in 1929, and he took a couple of surprising ...

Popeye the Sailor, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, is now public domain. Popeye is among a slew of 1929 characters and works, as well as 1924 sound recordings, that entered the public domain on ...

Animation buffs have waited years for it, and now Fleischer Studio's legendary Popeye the Sailor shorts are finally making their way to DVD. Popeye the Sailor - 1933-1938: Volume One contains the ...

Popeye is coasting back to the big screen. The iconic sailor man and spinach chugger, who first appeared in comic strips in the late 1920s, will be the subject of a new live-action feature film from ...

Popeye the Sailor Man was one of my favorite cartoons growing up as a kid in the late ’70s and ’80s. Even back then, the character was old (created in the ’20s), but had been repurposed and enhanced ...

The world’s most popular sailor man may be “strong to the finish,” but he shows no signs of nearing the finish line any time soon. Popeye, who turned 90 years old this month, is still going strong, an ...

The spinach-gulping childhood icon Popeye the Sailor Man's crazy journey from comic strips to cartoon – now live-action film. Faring past the waves of iconic nostalgia, Popeye is sailing back for more ...

McDonald’s has Ronald McDonald. Burger King has "The King." And Popeyes has... a fictional police detective trying to take down an international heroin-smuggling operation. Popeyes, or Popeyes ...

On Dec. 20, 2023, a viral post on Facebook claimed that actor Will Smith would be starring in a new movie about the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man. The post showed a purported image of Smith ...