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 ...

Click the launch module to the left for a video slide show on the original Popeye comics and cartoons. Like his fellow pop-culture icons from the early 20 th century—Mickey Mouse, Dick Tracy, Buster ...

Calling all Baby-Boomers! Your past is catching up with you! Warner Archives is releasing Vol. 1 of Popeye: The 1960’s Animated Classics Collection (1960). These are not the Fleischer classics from ...

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.

Popeye celebrates his 75th birthday this year. To honor the veteran sailor man, the Museum of Television and Radio unveiled a retrospective Saturday of the cartoon hero’s career. Nov. 13, 2004, 3:27 ...

In large part, Mickey Mouse became wildly popular because Walt Disney fixated on his cuteness, smoothing out the initially rough, mischief-making edges. But Popeye—star of E.C. Segar's Thimble Theater ...

New online animated shorts starring classic characters looks to be a trend. Universal announced last month that they’re making new Woody Woodpecker cartoons, and now King Features is trying the same ...

MeTV Toons has announced that it will air only black-and-white cartoons this Friday.

BANGKOK, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Children watching Popeye cartoons results in them eating more vegetables, and not just spinach, researchers in Thailand say. The researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok ...

Franz von Suppé was born on 200 years ago — April 18, 1819 — in what is now Croatia, but he went to Vienna as a young man and built a successful career as a conductor and composer. And while you may ...