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82-604: The Chicago Sun Syndicate was founded in December 1941, concurrent with the founding of Marshall Field III's Chicago Sun newspaper. Long-time syndication veteran Henry Baker was installed as manager. Comic-strip historian Allan Holtz has written regarding the origins of the Field Syndicate and its relationship to the rest of the company: Field . . . was a syndicate initially created by Marshall Field to sell features from his Chicago Sun newspaper. When Field started

164-462: A Washington Post editorial that had appeared in that paper the day before. Hornung attributed the plagiarism to writer's block, deadline pressures and the demands of other duties. He resigned as editorial page editor, but remained with the paper, shifting to its business side and working first as director of distribution and then as vice president of circulation. In 2002, Hornung became president and publisher of Midwest Suburban Publishing, which

246-502: A 47-year-old lawyer, teacher and daughter of Ruth Crowley, who had been the original Ann Landers columnist from 1943 until 1955. Crowley left to return to the practice of law in 1993 and the paper decided not to renew Zaslow's contract in 2001. By the summer of 1988, Page and Adler & Shaykin managing partner Leonard P. Shaykin had developed a conflict, and in August 1988, Page resigned as publisher and president and sold his interest in

328-539: A Curmudgeon Turned Into a Bully? Some Now Think So...Picking on a Food Writer." Although the Sun-Times began hiring a freelancer to edit the space and look for double entendres, another one made it into the same column on July 26, 1995, when the section published a letter from a "Phil McCraken." "This one was a little more subtle," a reporter outside the food department told the Chicago Reader . In 1998,

410-520: A Pulitzer Prize in 1941 and continued with the paper after it became the Sun-Times , drawing nearly 10,000 cartoons over a 44-year career. The advice column "Ask Ann Landers" debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley , who answered readers' letters until 1955. Eppie Lederer, sister of " Dear Abby " columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. "Kup's Column", written by Irv Kupcinet , also made its first appearance in 1943. Jack Olsen joined

492-764: A Pulitzer Prize-winning team with the Chicago Tribune in 1976, announced she was leaving the Sun-Times to join WBBM-TV in Chicago in August 1981 as chief of its new investigative unit. "Salary wasn't a factor," she told the Tribune . "The station showed a commitment to investigative journalism. It was something I wanted to try." Pete Souza left the Sun-Times in 1983 to become official White House photographer for President Ronald Reagan until his second term's end in 1989. Souza returned to that position to be

574-405: A chain of 12 south and southwest suburban papers published twice weekly, for an undisclosed sum. In December 1986, the Sun-Times hired high-profile gossip columnist Michael Sneed away from the rival Chicago Tribune , where she had been co-authoring the Tribune ' s own "Inc." gossip column with Kathy O'Malley. On December 3, 1986, O'Malley led off the Tribune ' s "Inc." column with

656-474: A column that would anchor page two of the paper. In 2000, longtime investigative reporter Charles Nicodemus retired from the paper at age 69 and died in 2008 at age 77. In 2001, Sun-Times investigative reporter Chuck Neubauer quit the paper to join the Los Angeles Times ' Washington bureau. Neubauer and Brown had initiated the investigation into U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski that uncovered

738-449: A daily Wingo girl, a pinup in a bikini promoting a cash giveaway. The Sun-Times , which had been placing above the Tribune in lists of the 10 best U.S. newspapers, never took that great step it was poised for. Murdoch sold the paper in 1986 (to buy its former sister television station WFLD to launch the Fox network ) for $ 145 million in cash in a leveraged buyout to an investor group led by

820-791: A fictional, magical animal called Eugene the Jeep was added to Popeye, and trademarked. King Features remained a "powerhouse" syndicate throughout the 1950s and the 1960s. In 1965 it launched a children's comic and coloring page. In 1986, King Features acquired the Register and Tribune Syndicate for $ 4.3 million. Later that year, Hearst bought News America Syndicate (formerly Publishers-Hall). By this point, with both King Features and News America (renamed North America Syndicate ), Hearst led all syndication services with 316 features. In 2007, King Features donated its collection of comic-strip proof sheets (two sets of over 60 years' accumulation) to

902-495: A heart attack in December 1992 at his home in Norwalk . In 1978, cartoonist Bill Yates (1921–2001) took over as King Features' comics editor. He had previously edited Dell Publishing 's cartoon magazines ( 1000 Jokes , Ballyhoo , For Laughing Out Loud ) and Dell's paperback cartoon collections. Yates resigned from King Features at the end of 1988 to spend full-time on his cartooning, and he died March 26, 2001. In 1988, Yates

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984-663: A nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the venerable afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News , sister paper of the Sun-Times , went out of business. The two newspapers shared the same ownership and office building. James F. Hoge, Jr. , editor and publisher of the Daily News, assumed the same positions at

1066-740: A point of telling audiences that King Features received more than 1,000 strip proposals annually, but chose only one each year. However, in Syd Hoff 's The Art of Cartooning (Stravon, 1973), Byck offered some tips regarding strip submissions, including the creation of central characters with warmth and charm and the avoidance of "themes that are too confining," as he explained: King Features Syndicate's content distribution division distributes more than 150 different comics, games, puzzles, and columns, in digital and print formats, to nearly 5,000 daily, Sunday, weekly and online newspapers and other publishers. Comic properties include Beetle Bailey, Blondie, Dennis

1148-408: A reader named "Olga Fokyercelf" that Chicago Tribune columnist (and former Sun-Times columnist) Mike Royko called "an imaginative prank" in a column. In that same column, Royko criticized the paper's food writer, who edited the readers' column at the time, Olivia Wu, for not following better quality control. The Wall Street Journal then criticized Royko with an article of its own, titled, "Has

1230-434: A seven-year span, he was promoted to associate editor and then, after Kennedy's death, to the position of comics editor on April 23, 2007. In November 2018, Tea Fougner was promoted to editorial director for comics after working as an editor at King Features for nine years. She is the first female-assigned and first genderqueer person to oversee comics editorial at King Features. When asked to speak in public, Byck made

1312-477: A staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times ' s film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life. In 1975, a new sports editor at the Sun-Times , Lewis Grizzard , spiked some columns written by sportswriter Lacy J. Banks and took away a column Banks had been writing, prompting Banks to tell a friend at the Chicago Defender that Grizzard was a racist. After

1394-417: A strip based on Edgar Wallace 's Inspector Wade of Scotland Yard ): The last strips Hearst personally selected for syndication were Elliot Caplin & John Cullen Murphy 's Big Ben Bolt and Mort Walker 's Beetle Bailey ; Hearst died in 1951. In the 1940s, Ward Greene (1893–1956) was King Features' editor, having worked his way up through the ranks. He was a reporter and war correspondent for

1476-703: A tribute to essential workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic . In September 2020, King Features relaunched comic strip Mark Trail , originally launched in 1946, with cartoonist Jules Rivera, author of comic strip Love, Joolz, at the helm. Many King characters were adapted to animation, both theatrical and television cartoons. Strips from King Features were often reprinted by comic book publishers. In 1967, King Features made an effort to publish comic books of its own by establishing King Comics . This short-lived comic-book line showcased King's best-known characters in seven titles: The comics imprint existed for

1558-480: A variety of misdeeds that ultimately had led to Rostenkowski's indictment, conviction and imprisonment. In April 2001, Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey quit to join the administration of then-Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley as Daley's deputy mayoral chief of staff, responsible for downtown planning, rewriting the city's zoning code and affordable housing issues. In April 2001, longtime Sun-Times horse-racing writer Dave Feldman died at age 85 while still on

1640-408: A year-and-a-half, with titles cover-dated from August 1966 to December 1967. When it ended, the books were picked up and continued by Gold Key Comics , Harvey Comics , and Charlton Comics . In 1967, Al Brodax, then the president of King Features, pitched The Beatles manager Brian Epstein on turning their hit song " Yellow Submarine " into an animated movie. The film was widely considered to be

1722-426: Is The Cuphead Show! for Netflix , an animated series based on the video game Cuphead by Studio MDHR, known for its use of fully hand-drawn characters and animations in the style of Fleischer Studios . The series had started development since July 2019, and was released on February 18, 2022. In June 2019, 20th Century Studios and The Walt Disney Company announced the production of an animated film based on

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1804-499: Is a unit of Hearst Holdings, Inc., which combines the Hearst Corporation's cable-network partnerships, television programming and distribution activities, and syndication companies. King Features' affiliate syndicates are North America Syndicate and Cowles Syndicate. William Randolph Hearst 's newspapers began syndicating material in 1895 after receiving requests from other newspapers. The first official Hearst syndicate

1886-543: Is an American content distribution and animation studio , consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips , newspaper columns , editorial cartoons , puzzles , and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide. King Features Syndicate also produces intellectual properties, develops new content and franchises (like The Cuphead Show! , which it produced with Netflix ), and licenses its classic characters and properties. King Features Syndicate

1968-596: Is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media , and has long held the second largest circulation among Chicago newspapers, after the Chicago Tribune . The Sun-Times resulted from the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times newspapers. Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer Prizes , mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was the first film critic to receive

2050-646: The Atlanta Journal for four years (1913–17), moving to the New-York Tribune in 1917 and then returning to the Atlanta Journal as correspondent in France and Germany (1918–19). He joined King Features in 1920, became a writer and editor of the magazine section in 1925, advancing to executive editor and general manager. Vice president Bradley Kelly (1894–1969) was a comics editor during

2132-760: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and the Michigan State University Comic Art Collection while retaining the collection in electronic form for reference purposes. In November 2015, King Features released a book, entitled "King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate" to commemorate its 100th anniversary . The book features a compilation of strips and the histories behind King Features strips. As of 2016, with 62 strips being syndicated, Hearst

2214-576: The Marshall Field family , which acquired the afternoon Chicago Daily News in 1959 and launched WFLD television in 1966. When the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko , were moved to the Sun-Times . During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of

2296-557: The Publishers-Hall Syndicate , and thus taking on distribution of such popular, long-running strips as Mary Worth , Steve Roper , Penny , Kerry Drake , Rex Morgan, M.D. , Judge Parker , Miss Peach , B.C. , and The Wizard of Id . In 1975, syndication operations absorbed Publishers-Hall, and were renamed the Field Newspaper Syndicate , taking on such strips as Dennis

2378-562: The Sun he found that Chicago was pretty much all sewed up with exclusive contracts on the better features. He resolved to purchase his own features and market them. Ironically, the Field Enterprises syndicate ended up being a better moneymaker than the Sun itself. It has been said that the flagship feature, Steve Canyon , was responsible for keeping the Sun afloat for many years. Field formed Field Enterprises in August 1944, and

2460-453: The Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris , who also covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times . Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a copy boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel , another longtime sportswriter for

2542-428: The Sun-Times demoted longtime TV critic Lon Grahnke, shifting him to covering education. Grahnke, who died in 2006 at age 56 of Alzheimer's disease , remained with the paper until 2001, when he retired following an extended medical leave. In 2000, the Sun-Times new editors, Michael Cooke and John Cruickshank , tapped longtime staff reporter Mark Brown, who had considered himself an investigative reporter, to write

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2624-403: The Sun-Times to Hollinger Inc. for about $ 180 million. Hollinger was controlled, indirectly, by Canadian-born businessman Conrad Black . After Black and his associate David Radler were indicted for skimming money from Hollinger International, through retaining noncompete payments from the sale of Hollinger newspapers, they were removed from the board, and Hollinger International was renamed

2706-481: The Sun-Times , which also retained a number of the Daily News ' s editorial personnel. In 1980, the Sun-Times hired syndicated TV columnist Gary Deeb away from the rival Chicago Tribune . Deeb then left the Sun-Times in the spring of 1983 to try his hand at TV. He joined Chicago's WLS-TV in September 1983. In July 1981, prominent Sun-Times investigative reporter Pam Zekman , who had been part of

2788-549: The Sun-Times Media Group . In 1994, noted reporter M.W. Newman retired from the Sun-Times around the age of 77. Newman, who died of lung cancer in 2001, had been with the Sun-Times since the Chicago Daily News closed in 1978 and had focused his efforts on urban reporting. Among other things, Newman had been known for coining the term "Big John" to describe the John Hancock Center and

2870-439: The "Ann Landers" column and written at that point by Eppie Lederer ) left the Sun-Times after 31 years to jump to the rival Chicago Tribune , effective March 15, 1987. The move sparked a nationwide hunt for a new advice columnist for the Sun-Times . After more than 12,000 responses from people aged 4 to 85, the paper ultimately hired two: Jeffrey Zaslow , then a 28-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter, and Diane Crowley,

2952-497: The 1940s. Sylvan Byck (1904–1982) was head editor of the syndicate's comics features for several decades, from the 1950s until his retirement in 1978. A King Features employee for more than 40 years and comics editor for 33 years, Byck was 78 when he died July 8, 1982. Comic-strip artist John Celardo (1918–2012) began as a King comics editor in 1973. In 1973, Tom Pritchard (1928–1992) joined King Features, and became executive editor in 1990, overseeing daily editorial operations and

3034-711: The ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat . Confronted by newspaper cutbacks, King Features has explored new venues, such as placing comic strips on mobile phones. In 2006, it launched DailyINK . On a web page and via email, the DailyINK service made available more than 90 vintage and current comic strips, puzzles, and editorial cartoons. The vintage strips included Bringing Up Father , Buz Sawyer , Flash Gordon , Krazy Kat , The Little King , The Phantom , and Rip Kirby . King Features editor-in-chief Jay Kennedy introduced

3116-738: The Archivist" posts exploring comic-strip history. The "Last 7" feature enables the reader to see a week's worth of comics on one page. On January 13, 2012, the DailyINK app was voted as the People's Champ in the Funny category in the 2011 Pixel Awards. Established in 2006, the Pixel Awards honor sites and apps displaying excellence in web design and development. Other nominees in the Funny category: JibJab Media Inc, Threaded, Snowball of Duty: White Opps and SoBe Staring Contest. In 2012, Jackys Diary

3198-910: The Field Syndicate changed its name to the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate . In 1963 Field Enterprises and New York Herald Tribune publisher John Hay Whitney acquired the Chicago-based Publishers Newspaper Syndicate , merging syndication operations with the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate, the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate , and the syndicate of the Chicago Daily News (a newspaper that had been acquired by Field Enterprises in 1959). In 1967, Field Enterprises acquired Robert M. Hall 's Hall Syndicate, merging it with Publishers to form

3280-477: The Magician , Office Hours , Quincy and Radio Patrol . On November 15, 2010, a subscription rate increase to $ 19.99 was announced, effective December 15, 2010, with applications available on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, plus a "new and improved" DailyINK in 2011. The redesign was by Blenderbox. Added features included original publication dates, a forum, and a blog, mostly promotional, but also with "Ask

3362-573: The Menace , Funky Winkerbean , Mark Trail , and Momma . The operation was renamed News America Syndicate (NAS) in 1984, after the company was purchased by Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation . Richard S. Newcombe (coming over from the Los Angeles Times Syndicate ) was named President of NAS, which at that point was considered the third-most powerful syndicate, after King Features and United Media . Hearst bought

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3444-492: The Menace , The Family Circus , Curtis , Rhymes with Orange , Arctic Circle , Macanudo , and Zits . The division additionally offers services for smaller publishers and community papers, including pagination and colorization services through its sister company, RBMA. In March 2018, to mark International Women's Day , many King Features cartoonists included messages about female empowerment and other topics that resonated with them. In April 2020, Bianca Xunise became

3526-602: The Painted Ponies." King Features also represents David and Goliath, an apparel and accessories line popular with teenagers. King Features additionally licenses outdoor apparel brand PURENorway, Moomins , Icelandic lifestyle brand Tulipop , ringtone character Crazy Frog and South Korean animated character PUCCA . As a sales tool, the King Features design team created colorful strip sample folders resembling movie press kits. With rising paper costs and

3608-435: The cast of Netflix 's Queer Eye giving Popeye a makeover. In November 2019, Comics Kingdom launched a YouTube channel featuring classic cartoons from King Features archives. Before launching the channel, in December 2018, King Features launched a series of animated Popeye shorts to its primary YouTube channel, in celebration of the character's 90th "birthday." In July 2020, comic strip Rhymes with Orange launched

3690-485: The city's Democratic establishment. Although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It also typically ran articles from The Washington Post / Los Angeles Times wire service. Among the most prominent members of the newspaper's staff was cartoonist Jacob Burck , who was hired by the Chicago Times in 1938, won

3772-456: The comic strip Flash Gordon . Taiki Waititi was attached to direct and John Davis was announced as the producer. On May 11, 2020, it was announced that a Popeye movie is in development at King Features Syndicate with Genndy Tartakovsky coming back to the project. In November 2020, a Hagar the Horrible animated series was announced, written by Eric Zibroski, who wrote and produced

3854-585: The company entitled King News . William Randolph Hearst paid close attention to the comic strips, even in the last years of his life, as is evident in these 1945–46 correspondence excerpts, originally in Editor & Publisher (December 1946), about the creation of Dick's Adventures in Dreamland — a strip that made its debut on Sunday, January 12, 1947; written by former Daily News reporter Max Trell and illustrated by Neil O'Keefe (who also drew for King Features

3936-586: The development of political cartoons, syndicated columns, and editorial services for King Features and North America Syndicate. Born in Bronxville, New York , Pritchard arrived at King Features after work as a reporter at The Record-Journal ( Meriden, Connecticut ), as feature writer with The Hartford Times , as editor-publisher of Connecticut's weekly Wethersfield Post , and as executive editor of The Manchester Journal Inquirer in Connecticut. He died of

4018-456: The downsizing of newspapers, the comic-strip arena became increasingly competitive, and by 2002, King salespeople were making in-person pitches to 1,550 daily newspapers across America. King was then receiving more than 6,000 strip submissions each year, yet it accepted only two or three annually. Interviewed in 2002 by Catherine Donaldson-Evans of Fox News , Kennedy commented: One of the first original animation projects of King Features Animation

4100-498: The expression "Fortress Illini" for the concrete structures and plazas at the University of Illinois at Chicago . On March 23, 1995, the Sun-Times announced that beginning April 2, 1995, veteran Sports Illustrated writer Rick Telander would join the paper and write four columns a week. On March 24, 1995, the Sun-Times published an editorial by Mark Hornung, then the Sun-Times' editorial page editor, that plagiarized

4182-413: The feature; those papers make local sales, while King handles national sales. During the 30-day period in which strips are made available on the newspaper sites, readers can post comments on local community forums. In January 2019, to commemorate Popeye 's 90th birthday, multiple King Features cartoonists drew their own versions of the comic and published those strips on Comics Kingdom. One comic included

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4264-589: The first animated film for adult audiences, despite its G-rating in United States. In addition to extensive merchandising and licensing of such iconic characters as Betty Boop , Felix the Cat , and Popeye , King Features has diversified to handle popular animation and TV characters (from " Kukla, Fran and Ollie " and " Howdy Doody " to " Mr. Bill " and " Mr. Magoo "), plus publicly displayed, life-sized art sculptures — " CowParade ", "Guitarmania" and "The Trail of

4346-591: The first black woman to join the team of female creators behind King Features strip Six Chix . Six Chix was first syndicated by King Features in May 2019, after King Features saw strip creator Maritsa Patrinos' work online. In June 2020, King Features started syndicating webcomic Rae the Doe . In the same month, cartoonists from King Features, along with artists from Kirkman's, Andrews McMeel Syndication and National Cartoonists Society , hid symbols in their Sunday strips as

4428-558: The friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the editorial employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks, and 13 months later he got his job back. A 25-part series on the Mirage Tavern , a saloon on Wells Street bought and operated by the Sun-Times in 1977, exposed a pattern of civic corruption and bribery, as city officials were investigated and photographed without their knowledge. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but

4510-465: The heading "The Last to Know Dept." and writing, "Dontcha just hate it when you write a gossip column and people think you know all the news about what's going on and your partner gets a new job and your column still has her name on it on the very same day that her new employer announces that she's going to work for him? Yeah, INC. just hates it when that happens." In February 1987, the popular syndicated advice column " Ask Ann Landers " (commonly known as

4592-776: The name of his longtime assistant of nearly 34 years, Stella Foster , as the coauthor of his column. After Kupcinet died the following month at age 91, the Sun-Times kept Foster on and gave her the sole byline on the column, which became known as "Stella's Column." Foster retired from the newspaper in 2012. In 2004, the Sun-Times was censured by the Audit Bureau of Circulations for misrepresenting its circulation figures. In February 2004, longtime Sun-Times political columnist Steve Neal died at his home in Hinsdale, Illinois , at age 54, of an apparent suicide. King Features Syndicate King Features Syndicate, Inc.

4674-644: The official photographer for President Barack Obama . Baseball writer Jerome Holtzman defected from the Sun-Times to the Tribune in late 1981, while Mike Downey also left Sun-Times sports in September 1981 to be a columnist at the Detroit Free Press . In January 1984, noted Sun-Times business reporter James Warren quit to join the rival Chicago Tribune . He became the Tribune ' s Washington bureau chief and later its managing editor for features. In 1984, Field Enterprises co-owners, half-brothers Marshall Field V and Ted Field , sold

4756-480: The paper to Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation , and the paper's style changed abruptly to mirror that of its suitemate, the New York Post . Its front pages tended more to the sensational, while its political stance shifted markedly to the right. This was in the era that the Chicago Tribune had begun softening its traditionally staunchly Republican editorial line, blurring the city's clear division between

4838-505: The paper to his fellow investors. In January 1989, the Sun-Times company starts its plans to purchase The Pioneer Press and its 38 different weekly publications. In mid-1991, veteran crime reporter Art Petacque , who had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974, left the paper. Almost ten years later, Dennis Britton, who had been the paper's editor at the time of Petacque's retirement, told the Chicago Reader that Petacque's departure, which

4920-643: The paper's publisher, Robert E. Page, and the New York investment firm Adler & Shaykin. In 1984, Roger Simon , who had been a Sun-Times columnist for a decade, quit to join The Baltimore Sun , where he worked until 1995. Simon quit the paper because of Murdoch's purchase of it. Beginning in October 1984, Simon's columns from Baltimore began appearing in the rival Chicago Tribune . In November 1986, The Sun-Times acquired Star Publications,

5002-558: The paper, both would end up honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame . Famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, depicting a mourning statue of Abraham Lincoln after the November 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy . Two years out of college, Roger Ebert became

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5084-505: The payroll. In May 2002, Sun-Times editors Joycelyn Winnecke and Bill Adee , who were then husband and wife, both quit on the same day to join the rival Chicago Tribune . Winnecke had been the Sun-Times managing editor, and she left for a new post, associate managing editor for national news, while Adee, who had been the Sun-Times sports editor for nine years, became the Tribune ' s sports editor/news. In October 2003, Sun-Times gossip columnist Irv Kupcinet began including

5166-502: The prize, Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013. Long owned by the Marshall Field family , since the 1980s ownership of the paper has changed hands several times, including twice in the late 2010s. The Chicago Sun-Times has claimed to be the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city. That claim is based on the 1844 founding of the Chicago Daily Journal , which

5248-514: The service early in 2006, commenting: Comics are consistently ranked among the most popular sections by newspaper readers. However, because of space, newspapers are not able to offer as vast a selection as many readers would like, and therefore millions of comic lovers are often not exposed to some of the most creative strips. In creating DailyINK, we wanted to ensure that fans had a destination where they could experience our complete lineup of award-winning comic artists and writers. DailyINK really sets

5330-557: The standard for comics online. By offering all of our current favorites updated daily, along with access to our archives of beloved characters as well as political humor and games, we have designed DailyINK.com as a destination fans will want to visit every day for something new. With 11,000 subscribers by June 2010, more vintage strips were added to DailyINK, including Barney Google , Beetle Bailey , Big Ben Bolt , Brick Bradford , The Heart of Juliet Jones , Jackys Diary , The Katzenjammer Kids , Little Iodine , Mandrake

5412-729: The syndicate became known as Field Enterprises Syndicate . One of the first major strips syndicated by Field was the hugely popular Mutt and Jeff (first launched in 1907), which moved over from the Bell Syndicate-North American Newspaper Alliance . With the Chicago Sun and Chicago Daily Times merger in January 1948, the syndicate absorbed the Chicago Times Syndicate , and installed its general manager, Russ Stewart, as head of Field Enterprises. At some point circa 1950,

5494-460: The syndicate in 1987 and renamed it North America Syndicate . The pending sale of NAS (which was first reported in October 1986), prompted Newcombe to leave the company in January 1987 and, using financial backing from London -based publisher Robert Maxwell , form Creators Syndicate before the close of the NAS sale. Creators Syndicate originated on February 13, 1987. Within a month, Creators acquired

5576-465: The syndication rights to B.C. and Ask Ann Landers . North America Syndicate is now part of Hearst's syndication division, King Features Syndicate . Strips that originated with Chicago Daily Times / Chicago Sun Syndicate / Field Enterprises / Field Newspaper Syndicate / Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate: Chicago Sun The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it

5658-407: The tabloid Chicago Daily Illustrated Times from the same editorial offices of the discontinued Journal . The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun , founded by Marshall Field III on December 4, 1941, and the Chicago Daily Times (which had dropped the "Illustrated" from its title) published from 1929 to 1948. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises , controlled by

5740-406: The two newspapers' politics. This shift was made all but official when Mike Royko defected to the Tribune . Roger Ebert later reflected on the incident with disdain, stating in his blog, On the first day of Murdoch's ownership, he walked into the newsroom and we all gathered around and he recited the usual blather and rolled up his shirtsleeves and started to lay out a new front page. Well, he

5822-399: Was a company owned by then- Sun Times parent company Hollinger International. In June 2004, Hollinger International placed Hornung on administrative leave just two weeks after Hollinger revealed that the paper's sales figures had been inflated for several years. Hornung resigned from the company four days later. On May 17, 1995, the Sun-Times' food section published a bogus letter from

5904-411: Was a real newspaperman, give him that. He threw out every meticulous detail of the beautiful design, ordered up big, garish headlines, and gave big play to a story about a North Shore rabbi accused of holding a sex slave. The story turned out to be fatally flawed, but so what? It sold papers. Well, actually, it didn't sell papers. There were hundreds of cancellations. Soon our precious page 3 was defaced by

5986-566: Was also the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire of 1871. The Journal , whose West Side building at 17–19 S. Canal was undamaged, gave the Chicago Tribune a temporary home until it could rebuild. Though much of the assets of the Journal were sold to the Chicago Daily News in 1929, its last owner Samuel Emory Thomason also immediately launched

6068-399: Was arrested in the Sun-Times' newsroom and held without bond after confessing to using his position to set up sexual encounters for male high school athletes. Anding was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and possession of child pornography. In September 1993, Anding pleaded guilty to arranging and videotaping sexual encounters with several teenage boys and fondling others. He

6150-615: Was called Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. , established in 1913. In 1914, Hearst and his manager Moses Koenigsberg consolidated all of Hearst's syndication enterprises under one banner (although Newspaper Feature Service was still in operation into at least the 1930s). Koenigsberg gave it his own name (the German word König means king ) when he launched King Features Syndicate on November 16, 1915. Production escalated in 1916 with King Features buying and selling its own staff-created feature material. A trade publication — Circulation —

6232-469: Was considered the second-largest comics service, second only to Uclick (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication ). In December 2017, King Features appointed CJ Kettler as president of the company. Kettler previously was CEO of Sunbow Entertainment and the executive producer of the Netflix series Carmen Sandiego . In 1941, King Features manager Moses Koenigsberg wrote an autobiographical history of

6314-452: Was described at the time as a retirement, was involuntary. "I had problems with some of the ways Art pursued his job," Britton told the Reader . In September 1992, Bill Zwecker joined the Sun-Times as a gossip columnist from the troubled Lerner Newspapers suburban weekly newspaper chain, where he had written the "VIPeople" column. In September 1992, Sun-Times sports clerk Peter Anding

6396-404: Was dropped from DailyINK, and the Archivist explained: "Unfortunately, we no longer have the rights to publish the strip." In December 2013, Daily INK was relaunched as part of King Feature's Comics Kingdom . In November 2008, King Features introduced Comics Kingdom, a digital platform that newspapers can embed on their sites. Comics Kingdom splits advertising revenue with newspapers carrying

6478-473: Was published by King Features between 1916 and 1933. In January 1929, the world-famous Popeye character was introduced in King Features' Thimble Theater comic strip. King Features had a series of hits during the 1930s with the launch of Blondie (1930–present), Flash Gordon (1934–2003 Note: Relaunched again in October 2023 by Dan Schkade as a daily and Sunday strip), Mandrake the Magician (1934–2013), and The Phantom (1936–present). In March 1936,

6560-594: Was replaced by Jay Kennedy — author of The Official Underground & Newave Comix Price Guide (Norton Boatner, 1982). Kennedy was King Features' lead editor until March 15, 2007, when he drowned in a riptide while vacationing in Costa Rica. Brendan Burford, who attended the School of Visual Arts , was employed for a year as an editorial assistant at DC Comics before joining King Features as an editorial assistant in January 2000. Working closely with Jay Kennedy over

6642-413: Was sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 1993, the Sun-Times fired photographer Bob Black without severance for dozens of unauthorized uses of the company's Federal Express account and outside photo lab, going back more than three years and costing the company more than $ 1,400. In February 1994, however, Black rejoined the paper's payroll after an arbitrator agreed with the paper's union that dismissal

6724-466: Was too severe a penalty. At the same time, the arbitrator declined to award Black back pay. In 1993, longtime Sun-Times reporter Larry Weintraub retired after 35 years at the paper. Weintraub had been best known for his "Weintraub's World" column, in which he worked a job and wrote about the experience. Weintraub died in 2001 at age 69. In February 1994, the Adler & Shaykin investor group sold

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