Hacker News with Generative AI: Comics

Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics (collegetowns.substack.com)
The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929 until 1976. As the first publication, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, is now over 95 years old, the character has entered the public domain in the US as of Jan. 1, 2025.

Comics, Art, Public Domain, Pop Culture

231 points by thunderbong 8 days ago | 150 comments

Popeye is now Public Domain (theverge.com)
It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. 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.

Public Domain, Copyright, Comics, Pop Culture

24 points by propagate97 13 days ago | 0 comments

Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway (apnews.com)
Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1.

Public Domain, Copyright, Literature, Comics

419 points by sohkamyung 33 days ago | 207 comments

An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987) (timhulsizer.com)
When Calvin and Hobbes hit the nation's funny pages in late 1985, it took everybody by surprise.

Comics, Interviews

151 points by thunderbong 43 days ago | 86 comments

New Comic Book: La BD de L'Avent, Le Lombard Publishing (davidrevoy.com)
A few months ago I wrote a short comic, a four-page one-shot, not about Pepper&Carrot, but about Christmas for Le Lombard publishing.

Comics, Publishing, Christmas

34 points by Tomte 57 days ago | 12 comments

What is the first American graphic novel? (haljohnsonbooks.substack.com)
I want to find the first American graphic novel—I say American simply because I know very little about comics of other countries; so put down your Tintins and your ACK hardbacks, and let’s see where this leads us.

Comics, History, American Culture

62 points by paulpauper 82 days ago | 26 comments

John Cassaday, Award-Winning Comic Book Artist&Creator of Planetary Dies at 52 (nytimes.com)
John Cassaday, an award-winning comic book artist best known for his runs on Planetary, a series he helped create about a trio of adventurers investigating strange events, and Astonishing X-Men, on which his work offered readers a new entry point to a decades-old franchise, died on Sept. 9 in Manhattan. He was 52.

Comics, Obituaries, Art

30 points by bookofjoe 116 days ago | 3 comments

Xkcd Game Theory Question (plover.com)

Game Theory, Comics, Puzzles

21 points by frizlab 149 days ago | 20 comments

Tales from the Far Side (kleefeldoncomics.com)

Comics, Humor

168 points by nikbackm 152 days ago | 38 comments

The Key to Bizarro's Symbols (bizarro.com)

Comics, Symbolism, Bizarro

63 points by litoE 156 days ago | 4 comments

Mathematical Comics: A Tour of Complex Analysis (sites.google.com)