There are a dozen new Mickey cartoons — he speaks for the first time and dons the familiar white gloves,” said Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

Popeye the Sailor, with his bulging forearms, mealy-mouthed speech, and propensity for fistfights, was created by E.C. Segar and made his first appearance in the newspaper strip “Thimble Theater ...

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 ...

Spinach was Popeye's secret weapon – even giving the character the power to turn into a human rocket. But the reason illustrator E.C. Seegar chose spinach as Popeye's superpower-in-a-can may ...

Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with novels from Faulkner and Hemingway By: Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press Posted: 11:04 PM CST Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 Last Modified: 12 ...

Popeye the Sailor, with his bulging forearms, mealy-mouthed speech, and propensity for fistfights, was created by E.C. Segar and made his first appearance in the newspaper strip “Thimble Theater” in ...

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 ...