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22-411: PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had previously established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. PopMatters launched in late 1999 as a sister site providing original essays, reviews and criticism of various media products. Over time, the site went from a weekly publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features, and columns. In

44-675: A dominant player in the syndication market in the early 1930s. In March 1930, United Features acquired the Metropolitan Newspaper Service (ostensibly from the Bell Syndicate ). And in late February 1931, Scripps acquired the New York World , which controlled the syndication arms of the Pulitzer company: World Feature Service and Press Publishing Co. (which unlike other syndicates were owned by

66-1057: A series with Counterpoint / Soft Skull in 2008–2009 including China Underground by Zachary Mexico, Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music by Edward Whitelock and David Janssen, Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists by Iain Ellis, and The Solitary Vice: Against Reading by Mikita Brottman . PopMatters publishes content from worldwide contributors. Its staff includes writers from backgrounds ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Many of its writers are published authorities in various fields of study. Notable former contributors include David Weigel , political reporter for Slate , Steven Hyden , staff writer for Grantland and author of Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? , and Rob Horning, executive editor of The New Inquiry . Karen Zarker

88-595: A successful distributor of newspaper comics, for the first time distributing color Sunday strips . An April 1933 article in Fortune described United Features as one of the "Big Four" American syndicates (along with King Features Syndicate , Chicago Tribune Syndicate , and the Bell Syndicate ). In 1934, United Features launched its first original strip, Al Capp 's Li'l Abner . As Li'l Abner 's popularity increased, creator Capp lampooned United Features in his strip-within-a-strip, Fearless Fosdick , which featured

110-401: A title which, as too English, was almost at once clipped to (New York) Daily News . It was a picture paper, and it was a perfect setting for the newly developed art of the comic strip. The first issue shows but a single strip, The Gumps . It was the almost instant popularity of this famous strip that directly brought national syndication into being. Midwestern and other papers began writing to

132-641: Is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company , it was part of United Media (along with the Newspaper Enterprise Association ) from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication . United Features has syndicated many notable comic strips, including Peanuts , Garfield , Li'l Abner , Dilbert , Monty , Nancy , Over

154-412: Is an information service filtered to provide targeted content. Full-text news feeds deliver articles from 600 sources from around the world. TCA also offered products and services for niche markets via TCA Specialty Products. TCA has, worldwide, 600-plus contributors and serves more than 1,200 clients, services and resellers. United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate, Inc. ( UFS )

176-742: Is the senior editor. McClatchy-Tribune News Service Tribune Content Agency ( TCA ) is a syndication company owned by Tribune Publishing . TCA had previously been known as the Chicago Tribune Syndicate , the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate ( CTNYNS ), Tribune Company Syndicate , and Tribune Media Services . TCA is headquartered in Chicago , and had offices in various American cities ( Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Queensbury, New York ; Arlington, Texas ; Santa Monica, California ),

198-640: The Bell-McClure Syndicate . Mollie Slott kept the syndicate running in its mid-century glory days. In 1968, the syndicate offered about 150 features to approximately 1400 client newspapers. Tribune Publishing acquired the Times Mirror Company in 2000, with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate being merged into Tribune Media Services . In 2006 The McClatchy Company inherited a partnership with

220-473: The Chicago Tribune , which also published The Gumps , requesting to be allowed to use the new comic, and the result was that the heads of the two papers collaborated and founded the . . . syndicate, which soon was distributing Tribune-News features to every nook and cranny of the country. Patterson founded the Chicago Tribune Syndicate in 1918, managed by Arthur Crawford. In 1933, Patterson (who

242-543: The Newspaper Enterprise Association to form United Media Enterprises . United Media continued to syndicate strips under the United Feature Syndicate brand. In 1994, Jim Davis's company, Paws, Inc. , purchased the rights to Garfield (including the strips from 1978 to 1993) from United Features. The strip is currently distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication , while rights for the strip remain with Paws. On February 24, 2011, United Media struck

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264-583: The Tribune Company , in the news service Knight Ridder-Tribune Information Services, when it acquired Knight Ridder ; the new service was called the McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT). In 2014, Tribune bought out McClatchy's share of the company, taking full ownership of MCT and moving its headquarters to Chicago. On June 25, 2013, the newspaper syndication News & Features division of Tribune Media Services became

286-578: The Tribune Content Agency . On June 12, 2014, Tribune Media Services was merged into Gracenote . After the 2014 split of Tribune Company assets between Tribune Media and Tribune Publishing , Gracenote went to Tribune Media (who would sell it to Nielsen Holdings in 2016) while Tribune Content Agency content remained with Tribune Publishing. On September 22, 2014, the McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

308-519: The Hedge , and Marmaduke . United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919. From 1922 to 1958, United Features was the column, feature (and comics) division of Scripps' United Press Association . Authors syndicated by United Features in its early years included Frank A. Vanderlip , Octavus Roy Cohen , David Lloyd George , Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , Herbert Hoover , Sinclair Lewis , Benito Mussolini , Édouard Herriot , and Heywood Broun . It became

330-627: The United Feature comics line in 1954, a few of their titles would be continued by St. John Publications . The rest of their comic book properties were acquired by Dell Comics in 1958. In 1968, United Features syndicated about 50 features to 1500 clients. In 1972, United Features Syndicate acquired and absorbed the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Bell-McClure Syndicate into its operations. In May 1978 Scripps merged United Feature Syndicate and

352-739: The United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. Sidney Smith 's early comic strip The Gumps had a key role in the rise of syndication when Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson , who had both been publishing the Chicago Tribune since 1914, planned to launch a tabloid in New York, as comics historian Coulton Waugh explained: So originated on June 16, 1919, the Illustrated Daily News ,

374-485: The abusive and corrupt "Squeezeblood Syndicate." Robert M. Hall was a sales manager at United Features starting in 1935; he left in 1944 to start the Post Syndicate . From 1936 to 1954, United Feature published their own line of comic books , using their comic strip features as characters. Lev Gleason , who in the 1940s and 1950s published a number of popular comics titles, was an editor at United Feature in

396-435: The beginning, including the company's first title, Tip Top Comics . Three United Feature titles published more than 100 issues: Tip Top Comics (188 issues, Apr. 1936–Sept./Oct. 1954), Sparkler Comics (120 issues, July 1941–Nov./Dec. 1954), and Comics on Parade (104 issues, Apr. 1938–Feb. 1955). The company even created its own original superheroes: Iron Vic, Mirror Man, and Spark Man (none of whom caught on). After ending

418-471: The fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million. From 2006 onward, PopMatters produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service . By 2009 there were four different pop culture related columns each week. The PopMatters Book Imprint published Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion , edited by Mary Money, with Titan Books in May 2012. The imprint also published four books in

440-510: The paper rather than being separate entities). The Metropolitan Newspaper Service acquisition brought over the comic strips Tarzan and Ella Cinders . The World Feature Service acquisition brought over the comic strips The Captain and the Kids , Everyday Movies , Fritzi Ritz , Hawkshaw the Detective , Joe Jinks , and Little Mary Mixup . From this point, United Features became

462-1044: Was renamed the Tribune News Service (TNS). TCA distributes media products, such as news , columns , comic strips , Jumble and crosswords , printed insert books, video , and other information services to publications across the United States, Canada, and other countries in English and Spanish for both print and web syndication . Tribune Premium Content is a subscription service for newspapers and other media channels. The content provided includes comics, puzzles, games, editorial cartoons, as well as feature content packages. Tribune Premium Content also syndicates content from other sources, such as The Atlantic , Rolling Stone , Kiplinger , Harvard Health and Mayo Clinic . TCA's news service, Tribune News Service , offers breaking news, lifestyle and entertainment stories, sports and business articles, commentary, photos, graphics and illustrations. Tribune SmartContent

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484-799: Was then based in New York and running the Daily News ), launched the Chicago Tribune-Daily News Syndicate, Inc. (also known as the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate and the Tribune-New York (Daily) News Syndicate ). An April 1933 article in Fortune described the "Big Four" American syndicates as United Feature Syndicate , King Features Syndicate , the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, and

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