Universal Press Syndicate

Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content. Some of the most popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert, William F. Buckley and News of the Weird.

Universal Press Syndicate was founded by John McMeel and Jim Andrews in 1970. The two graduates of Notre Dame first big strip came after Andrews was reading the "Yale Daily News". He was clipping a column by a priest and he kept getting distracted by a comic on the other page. The comic was "Bull Tales" by Garry Trudeau. Universal Press would later accept Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" for syndication.

Popular Universal Press Syndicate comics include "For Better or For Worse", "FoxTrot", "Calvin and Hobbes", "Garfield", "The Boondocks", "Doonesbury", "Cathy", "Pooch Cafe", "Baldo," "Prickly City", "Ink Pen", "Lio", "Cul de Sac", "Ziggy", "Tom the Dancing Bug", and "The Far Side" during its rise in newspapers, calendars and books.

Universal syndicates the editorial cartoonists Ben Sargent, Pat Oliphant, Tom Toles, Glenn McCoy, Ted Rall, and Don "Bad Reporter" Asmussen.

Universal syndicates crossword puzzles and games edited by Timothy Parker.

Universal Press Syndicate's sister company, uclick, runs the GoComics website. Universal Press Syndicate is credited at the end of "The Boondocks" television show.

Universal's international syndication arm, Atlantic Syndication, was founded in 1933 by Evening Post Publishing Company as Editors Press Service. In 2004, Universal acquired Editors Press Service from Evening Post Publishing Company and renamed it Atlantic Syndication.

Universal Press comics included

*Adam@home (1984-) (originally titled "Adam")
*The Argyle Sweater
*Baldo (2000-)
*Bizarro (1985-) (syndicated by Chronicles Syndicate since "The Far Side" moved to Universal; Universal picked up syndication when the Far Side got canceled; now syndicated by King Features Syndicate)
*Bloom County (1980-1989) (on GoComics website; syndicated in newspapers by The Washington Post Writers Group)
*The Boondocks (1997-2006)
*Calvin and Hobbes (1985-1995) (Reruns in newspapers in late 2005)
*Candorville
*Cathy (1976-)
*Citizen Dog (1995-2001)
*Clear Blue Water
*Cleats
*Close to Home
*Condorito (1949-) (licensed by World Editors, Inc.)
*Cornered (1996-)
*Cul de Sac
*Doonesbury (1970-) (Universal Press's first syndicated comic)
*The Duplex (1993-)
*The Elderberries
*The Far Side (1980-1994) (syndicated by Chronicles Syndicate prior to 1985; reruns now syndicated internationally only by Creators Syndicate)
*The 5th Wave
*The Flying McCoys
*For Better or For Worse (1979-) (Reruns continue since it got canceled; syndicated by United Media from 1997-2004)
*FoxTrot (1988-) (Daily strips canceled on New Years Eve 2006)
*Fred Basset (1963-)
*The Fusco Brothers
*Garfield (1978-) (licensed by Paws, Inc.; syndicated by United Media prior to 1994)
*Gaturro
*Ginger Meggs
*Heart of the City (1998-)
*In the Bleachers
*Ink Pen
*James Bond (licensed by EON Productions)
*Judge Dredd
*La Cucaracha
*Leyendas Míticas
*Liō (2006-)
*Lucky Cow
*Maintaining
*Modesty Blaise
*Monica's Gang
*Mutt & Jeff
*Non Sequitur (1992-)
*Opus (2003-) (on GoComics website; syndicated in newspapers by The Washington Post Writers Group)
*Overboard
*Pepe
*Pooch Café (2001-)
*PreTeena
*Prickly City
*Princess Ai
*Real Life Adventures
*Ronaldinho Gaucho
*Stone Soup
*Tank McNamara
*Tom the Dancing Bug (1990-)
*Tutelandia
*Watch Your Head
*What the Duck
*Ziggy (1971-)

Universal Press columns included

Lifestyle columnists

*Dear Abby
*Consejos
*Cookbook Nook
*Creating Spaces
*Double Duty Dinners
*Figuratively Speaking
*Focus on the Family
*Hollywood and Line
*Kids Talk About God
*Mr. Handyperson
*The Last Word in Astrology
*News of the Weird
*Scott Burns
*7-Day Menu Planner
*Smart Moves
*Supermarket Sampler
*Tell Me a Story
*On Computers
*On Ethics
*Pet Connection

Opinion columnists

*As I See It
*William F. Buckley, Jr.
*Ann Coulter
*Maggie Gallagher
*Georgie Anne Geyer
*James J. Kilpatrick
*John Leo
*National Perspective
*Ted Rall
*Richard Reeves
*Woman to Woman

External links

* [http://www.uclick.com Universal Press Syndicate Online Content Home]
* [http://www.amuniversal.com/ups Universal Press Syndicate Corporate Site]