Bleeding Cool

Popeye And Dagwood Join Mickey Mouse In Savage Dragon #278 (Spoilers)

Popeye and Dagwood join Mickey Mouse in Savage Dragon #278 from Image Comics thanks to public domain (Spoilers) ...
Detroit Free Press

Watch out for Popeye — he's armed, dangerous, and escaped from copyright

The easy thing to do with Popeye is have him kill a bunch of teenagers. That's what a few filmmakers did with Mickey Mouse last year, when the first version of Walt Disney's moneymaking rodent shed ...
Los Angeles Times

A Faulkner classic and Popeye enter the public domain while copyright only gets more confusing

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, shedding his core copyright protections on Jan. 1. He’s merely the most ...
Variety

Making the Public Domain Even More Horrifying: Modest Proposals for Turning 1920s Classics Into Slasher Fare, From Mickey to Hemingway (Column)

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for grisliness are scouring ...
TribLIVE.com

A Hemingway classic and Popeye enter public domain while copyright only gets more confusing

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, shedding his core copyright protections on Jan. 1. He’s merely the most ...