Other notable Disney works in the public domain in 2025 are Disney’s first “Silly Symphony” short, titled “The Skeleton Dance,” directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.

Jules Feiffer, the screenwriter behind Carnal Knowledge, Popeye and the author of countless books, dies at 95.

and merchandise,” a Disney spokesperson said in 2024.) A similar situation could play out with Popeye, who first appeared on Jan. 17, 1929, in the comic strip Thimble Theatre. That version alone ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin ... canonical works whose 95-year copyright maximums will expire. And the Disney icon's public domain presence expands. “It’s a trove!

Popeye is among a slew of 1929 characters and works, as well as 1924 sound recordings, that entered the public domain on January 1, 2025. These include more Mickey Mouse cartoons and Disney’s ...

Tintin and Popeye are both now available ... Alfred Hitchcock’s first sound film, Blackmail, and Disney’s first Silly Symphony short, “The Skeleton Dance.” You can check out some ...

Jules Feiffer, a Pultizer Prize-winning cartoonist and author who also wrote the screenplay for films, including Carnal ...

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1929: the year Popeye made his comic strip debut, Mickey Mouse uttered his first word, and Ernest Hemingway published the landmark novel A Farewell to Arms. As of January 1, 2025, a wide range of ...

On the Disney front, we get the Silly Symphony short ... But we do get a version of Popeye the Sailor as well as the initial version of Belgian reporter/adventurer Tintin. Whether the specific ...

Yes, including Popeye, the seeming innocent who arguably ... Just as in the real-life Disney universe, the generally unloved recurring character Kat Nipp is never missed after his mysterious ...