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I wonder if Interesting Copyright Things have ever happened with that strip as the search engine has risen in prominence and corporate power.It's interesting how Popeye effectively upstaged Ham Gravy, the main character, to the point where Ham faded into the background and the strip was renamed.
Something kind of similar happened to Barney Google, whose strip was hijacked by comical hillbilly Snuffy Smith, but Google's name remained in the title and Google himself started to become a more recurring character again in 2012 for some reason.
I wonder if Interesting Copyright Things have ever happened with that strip as the search engine has risen in prominence and corporate power.
Heh, good point - Edward Gold just took it to a whole new level than the ones @Lord Roem and I like to point out.It’s interesting that the first Wimpy bar is yet another example of the slightly off cartoon characters, made famous by ice-cream vans.
This reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story that the musician Sting pays a (very nominal) license fee to the wrestler Sting for use of the name.I wonder if Interesting Copyright Things have ever happened with that strip as the search engine has risen in prominence and corporate power.