You may have noticed that Popeye the Sailor Man has been in the news now that the character, or at least his earliest comic ...

The list includes classics ... 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 ...

‘Oh, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!’ Most people know Popeye as a tough, spinach-eating sailor, a cartoon character created by American cartoonist E. C. Segar. But did you know who the real-life ...

Popeye can punch without permission ... and is the kind of character element that could spawn legal disputes. And the animated shorts featuring his distinctive mumbly voice didn’t begin until ...

Over the course of the past few years, several popular characters from television and movies have entered the public domain.