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26-518: This Week was a nationally syndicated Sunday magazine supplement that was included in American newspapers between 1935 and 1969. In the early 1950s, it accompanied 37 Sunday newspapers. A decade later, at its peak in 1963, This Week was distributed with the Sunday editions of 42 newspapers for a total circulation of 14.6 million. It was the oldest syndicated newspaper supplement in

52-822: A hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Eighty of these are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History . Born in New York City , Johnson grew up in Corona, Queens, New York , attended PS 16 and Newtown High School. His father was from the Shetland Islands in Scotland and his mother was an immigrant from Germany . He studied art at Cooper Union in 1924, and at New York University in 1925. He explained his choice of pseudonym as follows: "Crockett

78-629: A large industry. Syndication properly took off in 1896 when the competitors the New York World and the New York Journal began producing Sunday comic pages. The daily comic strip came into practice in 1907, revolutionizing and expanding the syndication business. Syndicates began providing client newspaper with proof sheets of black-and-white line art for the reproduction of strips." By 1984, 300 syndicates were distributing 10,000 features with combined sales of $ 100 million

104-470: A pamphlet designed to sell advertising space in This Week . A collection of cartoons included a dozen profiles of the magazine's cartoonists and an article on cartoon devices and terminology by Mort Walker . Many cartoons in This Week were devised by gagwriter Bob McCully. One writer noted about him: McCully sends his cartoon ideas out on small 6×3½ inch cards, using a minimum of words. Here's how

130-713: A score of newspapers in the U.S. northeast. By the end of the Civil War, three syndicates were in operation, selling news items and short fiction pieces. By 1881, Associated Press correspondent Henry Villard was self-syndicating material to the Chicago Tribune , the Cincinnati Commercial , and the New York Herald . A few years later, the New York Sun ' s Charles A. Dana formed

156-488: A syndicate to sell the short stories of Bret Harte and Henry James . The first full-fledged American newspaper syndicate was the McClure Newspaper Syndicate , launched in 1884 by publisher S. S. McClure . It was the first successful company of its kind, turning the marketing of columns , book serials (by the likes of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle ), and eventually comic strips , into

182-686: A year. With the 1960s advent of the underground press , associations like the Underground Press Syndicate , and later the Association of Alternative Newsmedia , worked together to syndicate material — including weekly comic strips — for each other's publications. Prominent contemporary syndication services include: IFA-Amsterdam (International Feature Agency) provides news and lifestyle content to publications. Cagle Cartoons offers newspaper editorial cartoons and columns. 3DSyndication comprises syndication service from India,

208-849: Is an agency that offers features from notable journalists and authorities as well as reliable and established cartoonists. It fills a need among smaller weekly and daily newspapers for material that helps them compete with large urban papers, at a much lesser cost than if the client were to purchase the material themselves. Generally, syndicates sell their material to one client in each territory. News agencies differ in that they distribute news articles to all interested parties. Typical syndicated features are advice columns (parenting, health, finance, gardening, cooking, etc.), humor columns , editorial opinion, critic 's reviews, and gossip columns . Some syndicates specialize in one type of feature, such as comic strips. A comic strip syndicate functions as an agent for cartoonists and comic strip creators, placing

234-470: Is my childhood nickname. My real name is David Johnson Leisk. Leisk was too hard to pronounce—so—I am now Crockett Johnson!" By the late 1920s, Johnson was art editor at several McGraw-Hill trade publications. With the Great Depression , Johnson became politicized and turned leftward, joining the radical Book and Magazine Writers Union. In 1934, he began his cartooning career by contributing to

260-979: The Communist Party publication New Masses and subsequently joined the publication's staff, becoming its art editor and redesigning the magazine's layout. He remained with the magazine until 1940 and embarked on a career drawing comic strips in a series in Collier's magazine named "The Little Man with the Eyes". In 1942, he developed the Barnaby strip which would make him famous for the left-wing daily newspaper PM . In 1939 Johnson married writer Ruth Krauss . They had no children together, nor did they have children with their first spouses. They lived in Westport, Connecticut . Together they collaborated on several children's books. The children's book Harold and

286-530: The Tribune Content Agency and The Washington Post Writers Group also in the running. Syndication of editorial cartoons has an important impact on the form, since cartoons about local issues or politicians are not of interest to the national market. Therefore, an artist who contracts with a syndicate will either be one who already focuses their work on national and global issues, or will shift focus accordingly. An early version of syndication

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312-654: The India Today Group's Syndications Today , and Times Syndication Service of India. Crockett Johnson Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk . He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books, beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon . From 1965 until his death, Johnson created more than

338-681: The Purple Crayon was published in 1955. He died on July 11, 1975, at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut of lung cancer . Johnson collaborated on four children's books with his wife, Ruth Krauss . The books were: The Carrot Seed , How to Make an Earthquake , Is This You? , and The Happy Egg . The books Harold and the Purple Crayon , Harold's Fairy Tale , and A Picture for Harold's Room were adapted for animation by Gene Deitch . Johnson created his series of more than 100 mathematical paintings inspired by geometric principles and mathematicians. He painted layered geometric shapes in

364-854: The United States when it went out of business in 1969. It was distributed with the Los Angeles Times , The Dallas Morning News , The Plain Dealer ( Cleveland, Ohio ), the Boston Herald , and others. Magazine historian Phil Stephensen-Payne noted, This Week was being published as the New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine when publisher Joseph P. Knapp changed its name and began to syndicate it to other newspapers. The first issue appeared on February 24, 1935. The magazine's editor at

390-535: The card read which he submitted with an idea that eventually appeared as a cartoon in This Week magazine. Scene : Four garbagemen are standing beside the garbage can in the backyard of a house. Each one is holding his cap in his hand. The lady of the house is standing nearby. She seems embarrassed as one of the garbagemen says: Title : "... and so we're proud to announce that you've been selected as Miss Sanitary Garbage Can of 1949." Contributors to This Week included: Print syndication The syndicate

416-418: The cartoons and strips in as many newspapers as possible on behalf of the artist. In some cases, the work will be owned by the syndicate as opposed to the creator. A syndicate can annually receive thousands of submissions from which only two or three might be selected for representation. The leading strip syndicates include Andrews McMeel Syndication , King Features Syndicate , and Creators Syndicate , with

442-516: The evocation of emotion, representation of ancient symbols or other purposes unrelated to geometry. From 1965 until his death in 1975 Crockett Johnson painted more than 100 works relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. The Barnaby #1 to #6 books, published in paperback by Ballantine Books under the Del Rey imprint in 1985, were compilations of the first few years of the comic strip. Additional books were supposed to appear, but publication

468-409: The late 1950s. Caplan contributed a regular weekly thematic grouping of cartoons, sometimes in the form of a vertical comic strip. Cartoonist Stein was also This Week' s Auto Editor, expanding his material into a book, This Week's Glove-Compartment Auto Book (Random House, 1964). Crockett Johnson created The Saga of Quilby: A ghost story especially devised for advertisers who stay up late (1955),

494-563: The magazine in June ;1943, just before the death of Meloney the same month, and a year later the magazine started to turn a profit. In 1948, This Week surpassed the American Weekly as the American newspaper supplement with the largest advertising revenue. Nichols turned the financial fortunes of This Week around by "shun[ning] anything controversial": By 1963, This Week reached its highest circulation. Later, This Week

520-696: The paintings, based on classic mathematical theorems and diagrams in James R. Newman 's The World of Mathematics as well as other mathematics books. The paintings were inspired by famous mathematicians such as Galileo, Euclid, Descartes, and many more, and the titles of said paintings are references to each mathematician--"Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem" for Euclid, "Pendulum Momentum" for Galileo, and "Square Root of Two" after Descartes. Later, he began to construct using his own inventions. Most of Johnson's abstract images are painted with house paint on

546-556: The rough side of a two-by-three foot piece of masonite , save those he enlarged to four-by-four, he explained in a letter. Johnson made an effort to differentiate his paintings from contemporary art in that his are based on the mathematics of geometry, not solely the shapes. In his 1971 article titled "Geometric Geometric Painting", published in Leonardo , Johnson describes this type of geometric painting as using shapes and lines to experiment with color and optic illusion for decoration,

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572-576: The subscriber newspapers, he said: A memorandum to the 160  This Week employees pledged that The numerous cartoonists who contributed to This Week included Irwin Caplan , Dick Cavalli , Chon Day , Robert Day , Rowland Emett , Paul Giambarba , Tom Henderson, Bil Keane , Bill King, Clyde Lamb , Harry Mace, Roy McKie , Ronald Searle , Vahan Shirvanian , Ton Smits , Ralph Stein , Henry Syverson , George Wolfe and Bill Yates . Giambarba's series of Angelino cartoons ran in This Week during

598-524: The time was Marie Mattingly "Missy" Meloney , who professionally went by the name "Mrs. William Brown Meloney"; she had been editing the Herald Tribune 's Sunday magazine since 1926. In The New York Times , Henry Raymont wrote: In 1942, This Week cut its size down and eliminated run-overs onto back pages. It also changed to including 52% articles and 48% fiction; at one time it had contained 80% fiction. William I. Nichols became editor of

624-548: Was owned by Publication Corporation, which was taken over by Crowell, Collier & Macmillan in a January 1968 merger, but the magazine was "already fighting for survival". William Woestendiek , former editor of IBM 's Think magazine and former city editor of The Houston Post , was brought in to revamp the editorial format. "We tried hard to turn out a better editorial product," an unnamed Crowell, Coller executive told The New York Times . "We succeeded in doing it, but nobody wanted it." The merged company That effort

650-615: Was practiced in the Journal of Occurrences , a series of newspaper articles published by an anonymous group of "patriots" in 1768–1769 in the New York Journal and Packet and other newspapers, chronicling the occupation of Boston by the British Army. According to historian Elmo Scott Watson , true print syndication began in 1841 with a two-page supplement produced by New York Sun publisher Moses Yale Beach and sold to

676-402: Was unsuccessful, and subscribing newspapers, with the then-total circulation of 9.9 million, were offered the opportunity to keep the supplement going by paying about $ 5 for 1,000 copies. The attempt was fruitless, said Fred H. Stapleford, president and publisher of United Newspaper Corporation, and he announced that the last number would be issued on November 2, 1969. In a letter to

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