© King Features SyndicateIn what we can only hope will be an annual event Sarah Rose joins dad John for a special Father’s Day week with the return of Li’l Sparky to Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Cartoonist John Rose breaks the news: I am pleased to announce that Li’l Sparky returns again for another […]
The Big Three Comic Syndicates have released a joint statement on the Pulitzer Board’s decision to not award a Prize for the Editorial Cartooning category in 2021. June 16, 2021: Statement Regarding Pulitzer Committee’s Decision on 2020 Editorial Cartooning Award A joint statement from Andrews McMeel Syndication, King Features and Creators Syndicate: Andrews McMeel Syndication, King […]
The news agency Associated Press was founded 175 years ago in May 1846.According to Wikipedia, which takes the date from New York Natives, the prime date is May 22, 1846, so we missed the anniversary by a couple days.More from Wikipedia: The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York […]
The syndicates have been busy this year adjusting their pages that feature the comics offered to newspapers. The year started off with Tribune Content Agency introducing Mt. Pleasant as a new comic strip. That was quickly followed by Andrews McMeel Syndication taking on the distribution of Half Full, and more recently dropping Tarzan from their […]
Daily Cartoonist colleague Mike Peterson posted an advisory on his Twitter feed:That leads me to point out a couple examples.After Buckles ended in March King Features Syndicate dropped the comic strip from its list of offerings. When they did that eight or nine other features fell off the page. Eventually most of the dropped comics […]
The Northside Sun of Jackson, Mississippi has partnered with Creators Syndicate to supply comics and cartoons to its readers on the newspaper’s website. It is a unique webpage format that I haven’t seen with other newspapers. Curious if it is the paper’s design or the syndicate’s. Newspapers and comic strips have been intertwined for ages. […]
Universal Press Syndicate co-founder Kathleen Andrews has passed away.Kathleen Whalen (Kathy) AndrewsMarch 12, 1037 – April 16, 2021 Kathy was there in the beginning: In 1970, Andrews McMeel Universal was founded as Universal Press Syndicate by Jim Andrews and John McMeel. With an impressive company name and energetic young owners, Universal Press Syndicate began in a […]
Content syndicates are businesses that syndicate content to businesses that need content for their platforms— newspapers, magazines, tv and radio stations, websites, etc. King Features Syndicate Editorial Director for Comics Tea Fougner has tweeted a short essay on current syndication practices with a bit of history. The way syndication works today is that we are […]
It seems Canada’s Postmedia and Andrews McMeel Syndication have come to an agreement in which AMS will provide Postmedia websites with syndicated content (comics, columns, puzzles). In a December 21, 2020 announcement that appeared on Postmedia websites:A brand new Puzzles and Comics experience launches Monday on your favourite Postmedia website. All the comic strips that […]
Some historical essays from the past week. William Gropper: Social Justice Cartoonist GROPPER, who was contributing to other radical magazines (like The Rebel Worker, The Morning Freiheit, and The Revolutionary Age) as well as mainstream magazines (The Bookman, The Dial, and Frank Harris’ New Pearson’s Magazine), married his second wife in 1924, and the two […]
November 7 Cartooning Workshop for Beginners with Rick Stromoski art © Rick StromoskiLearn how to draw cartoon characters and animals with Rick Stromoski. Kids will gain an understanding of how to create an infinite number of characters and a variety of expressions just by altering a few shapes and/or lines to a drawing. Students will […]
Once again the Kansas City Business Journal has named Andrews McMeel Universal to its Champions of Business list., an award that honors Kansas City companies that set the gold standard for financial performance, innovation and community involvement.From the KC Business Journal: Andrews McMeel Universal hasn’t changed much inits 50 years. Yet it’s also changed […]
Tea Fougner, Editorial Director of Comics for King Features Syndicate, was recently interviewed by Heidi MacDonald on the Publishers Weekly Comics World podcast; and they covered a lot in the 30 minutes.Ecomics – Tea, the guiding force behind Popeye’s Cartoon Club, discusses King Features recent dive into webcomics (Rae the Doe, #Sales).Career – The needs […]
It’s been quite a spring, and few of the events of the past two months have offered much reason to smile. Sometimes we all wish there was something – anything – to take our minds off of it all. We feel it too, and we hear you. Today, I’m happy to announce that the St. Cloud Times […]
Well, since Mike brought up Bakersfield…Bakersfield Californian Executive Editor Christine L. Peterson received a question about why the coronavirus pandemic is curiously missing from most of the current comic strips.On another note — because it’s all about the comics — why are all but “Over the Hedge” void of coronavirus quarantine mention? “Pearls Before Swine” […]