As of January 1, the 1929 comic strip adventures of Popeye have entered the public domain, which means that—as long as you tread carefully—you can, as noted at the outset, create your own Sailor Man ...

Sailor Popeye, faced with many menial tasks, fastens a couple of mops to the prop of his plane, substitutes water for bullets in his machine gun and goes about cleaning the deck of the ship.