Pclanglais/Popeye-1929

Popeye-1929 is fine-tuned version of Stable-Diffusion-xl trained on 25 comic strip stills of Popeye from The Thimble Theatre (1929).

Since 2025, January 1st Popeye in the public domain, but only for its initial apparence and design from the 1929 strip.

Prompt

color drawing of popeye, dressed as superhero

Prompt

color drawing of popeye fighting a war

Prompt

color drawing of popeye with giant spinach

Popeye-1929 can generate images of the first initial apparence of Popeye. Olive and Harold (the Thimble Theatre original protagonist) appear occasionally but are not linked to a specific keyword.

Popeye-1929 is a sequel of sort to Mickey-1928, another experiment of image generation on popular characters entering the public domain.

Dataset

Since 2025, the entire first run of Popeye comic strip is in the public domain. Popeye is originally a spin-off: he appeared as a secondary character in a longer running comic strip, The Thimble Theatre.

The quality of comic strip source is not great and many image generations will have a surrealistic look as a result.

The generated images aim to adhere to the 1929 design in order to have Popeye in the public domain. The base model is still largely relying on copyrighted images for base training: generated images should be checked to ensure they really are in the public domain design.