At the end of the year, we polled the many members of the CBR staff that make this site so great and asked them for their ...

"Tintin enters the U.S. public domain in 2025 but is still copyrighted in the E.U. until 2054, because the author died in 1983," according to Jenkins' blog post about Public Domain Day 2025. It's a ...

Dale Cummings (Cartoon Movement) fears the burdens put on the press, and I would assume he’s talking about Canada’s major papers, which suffer from too few owners and cuts and layoffs as we’ve seen ...

Richard D. Parsons, one of the leading corporate executives and crisis managers of his generation, who as chairman of Time Warner and Citigroup became a steadying pilot for media and financial ...

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.

Among those: an anime cartoon he used to watch with his dad ... And the dude is like, ‘So you’re scared?’ And he says, ‘I’m not scared. I’m excited.’ That’s kind of the mentality I have right now.” ...

In a recent vintage photo of downtown Mount Vernon in the early 1950s, we saw the sign (if not the actual building) for a Sinclair gas station. This image from around the same time shows the Sinclair ...

Eva Walker is a long-time KEXP DJ and one half of The Black Tones. In 2024, she had her baby girl, Hendrix. Every month, she bundles the wisdom from her experiences (and mistakes) into a writes a ...

Jan. 1 marks the dawn of a new era for Popeye and Tintin. It's the day the nonagenarian cartoon characters officially enter the U.S. public domain along with a treasure trove of other iconic works.

Morten Morland offers the most sweeping, and chilling view of things to come, in the way billionaires are lining up to not ...

That’s my “primal scream” after the results of November’s election. I wasn’t able to make it to the shores of Lake Michigan ...

With so many voices in the digital age, it’s vital to know who you can trust - to put the facts in context and to give a comprehensive analysis of what’s going on. And if you get a laugh out ...