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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

-Popeye the Sailor is an American animated series of comedic, theatrical cartoon shorts started in 1933 by Max and Dave Fleischer’s Fleischer Studios and based on the comic strip character created by ...

Popeye aficionado Fred Grandinetti of Watertown is paying homage to the 1950s cartoons starring the spinach-loving sailor in three episodes of his local-access cable television show, "Drawing With ...

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

Evanston resident Gordon Sheehan, an animator who worked on the cartoons “Popeye” and “Betty Boop,” died of heart failure Friday at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. He was 86. Mr. Sheehan, who grew ...

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 ...