King Features commits $100k to scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy
King Features Syndicate has committed $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy, who served as…
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King Features Syndicate has committed $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy, who served as…
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has posted an interview with Brendan Burford, King Feature’s new comics editor. At age 28, Brendan…
E&P is reporting that Brendan Burford has been named King Feature Syndicate’s comics editor. “Jay had planned for the inevitability…
NCS president Rick Stomoski has informed me that King Feature Syndicate Editor-in-Chief Jay Kennedy has passed away yesterday in a…
According to Editor & Publisher, Dean Miller, executive editor of The Post Register in Idaho Falls, sent a letter to…
King Features has launched it’s third feature of 2006 (Retail and Pajama Diaries being the first two). The new feature is a Sunday only called Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop by Kevin Frank. Heaven’s love focuses on the the characters (Wilson, Cassidy, and Dag) who run a charitable thrift shop which supports outreaches including a soup-kitchen and homeless shelter.
From a story out of Reuters comes news that Warner Home Video has negotiated a deal with Hearst Entertainment and King Features for worldwide distribution rights to all of Popeye’s theatrical shorts and television cartoons…. Warner also has licensed the exclusive rights to 220 Popeye made-for-TV animated shorts produced from 1960-62, 65 episodes of “The Continuing Adventures of Popeye,” produced from 1978-81 (and consisting of 161 animated shorts) and 26 “Popeye & Son” shorts produced in 1987.The Popeye theatrical slate includes 120 black-and-white shorts (106 of them produced by Fleischer Studios, the other 14 by Famous Studios) and 111 Technicolor cartoons (three produced by Fleischer Studios and 108 produced by Famous Studios).Warner will now have to begin preservation and restoration.
King Feature’s DailyINK has added five more comics to their list of features subscribers can subscribers to. The new features are: Beetle Bailey, Bringing up Father, Buz Sawyer, Flash Gordon, and Rip Kirby.
Patrick McDonnell has helped raise $12,000 for the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Ramnagar, India, according to Editor and Publisher.Visitors to the Muttscomics.com store donated $2,000 (in $1 increments), which was matched by McDonnell. That $4,000 total was then matched twice by The Corbett Foundation and the World Wildlife Foundation of India.
Two more features have been launched. “On a Claire Day” was launched Monday. This new feature is by Carla Ventresca…