This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.
And what greater honor could there be than putting Popeye the Sailor in a bunch of videogames he probably shouldn't be in? First appearing in 1929 as a side character in the comic strip Thimble ...
To him, Popeye turning 40 is a milestone that feels like it was only yesterday. “Time goes fast when you’re getting old, but there’s a certain freshness about it in my memory. It was an ...