Nostalgia is a powerful motivator. I’ve always been drawn to the golden age of animation. There is something about the clean, ...

Sparky Betty Boop was 50 when she started riding a motorcycle. She started riding 30 years ago in California. Her motorcycle is has a Betty Boop theme and includes a painting of a Betty Boop tattoo ...

Betty Lois (Smith) Black, of Ashland, passed away on February 9, 2026, at Westlake Assisted Living in Commerce, Michigan at the age of 93. Betty was born in rural Ashland on September 24, 1932, a ...

ITN Distribution, the company behind the Twisted Child Universe (aka the Poohniverse), is next turning the cartoon classic “Betty Boop” into a slasher with Betty’s Revenge, featuring V/H/S star Hannah ...

ITN Distribution, the company behind the Twisted Child Universe (aka the Poohniverse), is next turning the cartoon classic “Betty Boop” into a slasher with Betty’s Revenge, featuring V/H/S star Hannah ...

While Betty Boop has been freed from copyright jail, Fleischer Studios isn’t going to let the iconic character sing on stage again without a fight. But, Fleischer Studios is warning producers not to ...

Four songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, and many more are among the intellectual properties that have officially entered the public domain, as part of Public Domain Day 2026.

Associated Press file photos / Betty Boop collapses on Broadway near 49th Street as handlers work to raise the deflated helium balloon during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in 1986.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of ...