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United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 newspaper
Newspaper

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 syndication
Print syndication

Print syndication is a form of syndication in which news articles, column , or comic strips are made available to newspapers, magazines, and websites....
 service based in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is United Feature Syndicate/Newspaper Enterprise Association.



Web-based features These are published on Comics.com:





e 1936 NEA has produced an annual Christmas-themed daily comic strip for its subscribing newspapers as a holiday bonus.






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United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 syndication
Print syndication

Print syndication is a form of syndication in which news articles, column , or comic strips are made available to newspapers, magazines, and websites....
 service based in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is United Feature Syndicate/Newspaper Enterprise Association.

Syndicated columns

  • Miss Manners by Judith Martin
    Judith Martin

    Judith Martin , better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an United States journalism, author, and etiquette authority. Martin's uncle was the distinguished Economics and Trade union historian Selig Perlman....
  • NextSteps by Jan L. Warner and Jan K. Collins
  • Sense & Sensitivity by Harriette Cole
    Harriette Cole

    Harriette Cole She is currently the Creative Director of Ebony .External links*
  • Among Friends by Tad Bartimus
  • Cokie Roberts
    Cokie Roberts

    Cokie Roberts is an United States Emmy Award-winning journalist and Bestseller author. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week with George Stephanopoulos....
     and Steven V. Roberts
    Steven V. Roberts

    Steven V. Roberts is an United States journalist, writer, political commentator.Roberts attended Harvard where he served as editor of the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson....
  • The Conservative Advocate by William A. Rusher
    William A. Rusher

    William A. Rusher is an United States lawyer and Conservatism columnist.In 1957, William F. Buckley, Jr. hired Rusher as publisher of National Review....
  • Diana West
    Diana West

    Diana West is a nationally Syndicated columnist United States journalist, pundit and author. She writes commentary for the Newspaper Enterprise Association and occasionally writes op-ed pieces for the Washington Times, where she worked until 2002....
  • Donald Lambro
    Donald Lambro

    Donald Lambro is the chief political correspondent of The Washington Times and a nationally syndicated columnist with United Feature Syndicate....
  • Gene Lyons
    Gene Lyons

    Gene Lyons is a political columnist and co-author with Joe Conason of The Hunting of the President, a documentary book published in 2000, with a supporting Documentary film....
  • Harper's Magazine
    Harper's Magazine

    Harper's Magazine is a monthly, general-interest magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. It is the second-oldest, continuously-published monthly magazine in the U.S.; current circulation is more than 220,000 issues....
  • Joan Ryan (columnist)
  • Kathryn Jean Lopez
    Kathryn Jean Lopez

    Kathryn Jean Lopez, a native of Manhattan, is an United States American conservatism columnist who is nationally syndicated by the United Media....
  • Mary Mitchell
  • More Than Work by Tim McGuire
  • Morton Kondracke
  • The New Republic
    The New Republic

    The New Republic is an United States magazine of politics and the arts. It is published semimonthly and has a circulation of approximately 60,000....
  • Peter Beinart
    Peter Beinart

    Peter Beinart is a journalist and contributing editor for The New Republic, having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006....
  • Salon
    Salon.com

    Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online magazine, with content updated each weekday. Modern liberalism in the United States politics of the United States is its major focus, but it covers a range of issues....
  • Sharon Randall
  • Slate (magazine)
    Slate (magazine)

    Slate is an English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former The New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft, as part of MSN....
  • Sweet Land of Liberty by Nat Hentoff
    Nat Hentoff

    Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff is an United States historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media and writes regularly on jazz and country music for The Wall Street Journal....
  • From Consumer Reports
    Consumer Reports

    Consumer Reports is an United States magazine published monthly by Consumers Union. It publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory....
  • Harvey Mackay
    Harvey Mackay

    Harvey Mackay is a businessman and columnist. Mackay is perhaps best known as the author of five business bestsellers, including Swim With the Sharks , Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt, and Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty....
  • Protect Your Privacy by Eric Gertler
  • Smart Money by Bruce Williams
  • Talking Money with Jean Chatzky
    Jean Chatzky

    Jean Sherman Chatzky is an American financial journalist, author and motivational speaker. Serves as AOL's official Money Coach. Chatzky has given personal financial advice on various TV shows....
  • The Tax Adviser by Julian Block
  • The Truth About Money by Ric Edelman
    Ric Edelman

    Ric Edelman is the chair and chief executive officer of Edelman Financial Services, LLC., the author of several personal finance books, and the host of a broadcast syndication weekly personal finance talk radio show called The Ric Edelman Show....
  • Working Wounded by Bob Rosner
  • Ask Mr. Know-It-All by Gary Lee Clothier
  • Hellmuth's Hold 'Em by Phil Hellmuth
    Phil Hellmuth

    Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
  • Starlight
  • Tune in Tomorrow by Nancy Reichardt
  • Tune in Tonight by Kevin McDonough
  • World Almanac
    World Almanac

    The World Almanac and Book of Facts is an American-published reference work and is the bestselling almanac conveying information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc....
     Databank
  • You Be the Critic by Bob Habes
  • Soap Opera Review by Nancy Johnson (columnist)
  • Desperation Dinners by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross (columnist)
  • Cook Well, Eat Well by Dana Carpender
    Dana Carpender

    Dana Carpender is an United States of America food writer, best known for writing about Low-carbohydrate diet. Carpender lives with her husband in Bloomington, Indiana....
  • NEA Food by Marialisa Calta
  • On Nutrition by Ed Blonz
  • The Aces on Bridge by Bobby Wolff
    Bobby Wolff

    Robert S. Wolff is a famous American Contract bridge player and an original member of the Dallas Aces team, which was formed in 1968 to compete against the Italian Blue team which was dominant at the time....
  • NEA Bridge by Phillip Alder
  • NEA Graphics
  • Dr. Gott by Peter Gott
  • The Harvard Medical School
    Harvard Medical School

    Harvard Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University and currently the #1 medical school in America, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report....
     Adviser
  • Astro-Graph by Bernice Bede Osol
  • Your Birthday by Stella Wilder
  • Your Stars This Week by Stella Wilder
  • Divine Design
    Divine Design

    Divine Design is a Canadian interior design show produced by Fusion Television which airs on W Network in Canada and HGTV in the United States....
     by Candice Olson
    Candice Olson

    Candice Olson is a Canadian interior designer and the host of the home makeover show Divine Design with Candice Olson, which airs on the W Network in Canada and in the US on the cable channel HGTV....
  • Frugal Living by Sara Noel
  • First Aid for the Ailing House by Henri deMarne
  • The Housing Scene by Lew Sichelman
  • The Village Idiot by Jim Mullen
  • A+ Advice for Parents Helping Your Child Succeed in School by Leanna Landsmann
  • Parent-to-Parent by Betsy Flagler
  • Parenting by the staff of Parenting Magazine
  • Surfing the Net with Kids by Barbara J. Feldman
  • Animal Doctor by Michael Fox, D.V.M.
  • Saints and Sinners by George Plagenz
  • MasterStrokes by Phil Franke
  • Open Season by Tom FitzGerald
    Tom Fitzgerald

    Tom Fitzgerald or Thomas Fitzgerald may refer to:* Tom Fitzgerald , American soccer coach from Florida* Tom Fitzgerald , retired ice hockey player for the Boston Bruins and other teams...
  • Win, Lose & Drew


Syndicated comics

  • Alley Oop
    Alley Oop

    File:Alley1937oop.jpgAlley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by United States cartoonist V. T. Hamlin. The strip is a mix of adventure, fantasy and humor....
  • Arlo and Janis
    Arlo and Janis

    Arlo and Janis is a comic strip written and drawn by Jimmy Johnson . It is a leisurely-paced domestic situation comedy. It was first published in newspapers on July 29, 1985....
  • Betty
    Betty (comic strip)

    Betty is a Canada comic strip written by Gary Delainey and drawn by Gerry Rasmussen. The comic is distributed by United Feature Syndicate....
  • Big Nate
    Big Nate

    Big Nate is a comic strip written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce. The strip revolves around Nate Wright, a rebellious sixth grade, and his classmates and teachers....
  • The Born Loser
    The Born Loser

    The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son Chip Sansom started assisting on the strip in 1989, and the strip is currently distributed by United Features Syndicate....
  • Brevity
    Brevity

    Brevity is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by Guy Endore-Kaiser and Rodd Perry. Brevity originally began on Comics Sherpa . It debuted in 55 newspapers on January 3, 2005....
  • The Buckets
    The Buckets

    The Buckets is a comic strip originally created by Scott Stantis. It has been syndicated since 1990, first by Tribune Media, and currently by United Media....
  • Committed
  • Cow and Boy
    Cow and Boy

    Cow and Boy is a comic strip created by Mark Leiknes and distributed by United Features Syndicate that began its run on January 2, 2006.The strip centers on a boy named Billy and his best friend Cow, who live on Billy's family's farm....
  • Diesel Sweeties
    Diesel Sweeties

    Diesel Sweeties is a webcomic and newspaper comic strip written by Richard Stevens . The comic began in 2000, originally hosted at robotstories.com....
  • Dilbert
    Dilbert

    Dilbert is an United States of America comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satire office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title role....
  • Drabble
    Drabble (comic)

    Drabble is a comic strip by Kevin Fagan , launched in 1979. It focuses on the family life of the Drabble family....
  • F Minus
    F Minus

    F Minus is a horizontally oriented panel comic strip by Tony Carrillo, started when he was a sophomore at Arizona State University. It ran daily in The State Press, an independent newspaper at ASU, from 2002 until 2004, when Carrillo graduated....
  • Ferd'nand
    Ferd'nand

    Ferd'nand is a comic strip, notable for both its lack of speech balloon, lack of continuity , and for its longevity....
  • Frank and Ernest
    Frank and Ernest (comic strip)

    Frank and Ernest is a comic strip created and illustrated by Bob Thaves and later Tom Thaves. It debuted on November 6 1972, and has since been published daily in over 1,200 newspapers....
  • Frazz
    Frazz

    Frazz is a print syndication comic strip by Jef Mallett that centers on Edwin "Frazz" Frazier, a janitor who enjoys life. The strip debuted on 2 April 2001....
  • Get Fuzzy
    Get Fuzzy

    Get Fuzzy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Darby Conley. The strip features the adventures of Boston, Massachusetts advertising executive Rob Wilco and his two anthropomorphism pets: dog Satchel Pooch and cat Bucky Katt....
  • Go Fish
    Go Fish (comic)

    Go Fish was an American comic strip, drawn by J. C. Duffy. The strip featured psychiatrist Norman Floyd as he dealt with eccentric characters and whimsical observations....
  • Graffiti
  • Grand Avenue
  • The Grizzwells
  • Health Capsules
  • Herman
    Herman (comic strip)

    Herman was a daily single panel comic strip written and drawn by Jim Unger. It was syndicated from 1975 continuously through 1992, when Unger retired....
  • The Humble Stumble
  • Jump Start
    Jump Start (comic)

    Jump Start is a daily comic strip by cartoonist Robb Armstrong. Armstong attended Syracuse University, where in 1982 he created a popular comic strip in the student newspaper The Daily Orange....
  • Kid City
  • KidSpot
  • Kit 'N' Carlyle
  • Lola
  • Luann
    Luann (comic strip)

    Luann is a print syndication comic strip, distributed in newspapers by United Features Syndicate since March 17, 1985, Luann is written and drawn by Greg Evans, who won the 2003 Reuben Award as Cartoonist of the Year....
  • Marmaduke
    Marmaduke

    Marmaduke is a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson from 1954 to the present day. The strip was created by Anderson, with help from Phil Leeming and later Dorothy Leeming ....
  • Moderately Confused
  • Monty
    Monty (comic strip)

    Monty is an United States comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick....
  • Nancy
    Nancy (comic strip)

    File:Nancyonice.jpgNancy is an United States daily and Sunday comic strip originally written and drawn by Ernest Paul Bushmiller.The character of Nancy, a precocious little girl , first appeared in the strip Fritzi Ritz about the airheaded flapper title character....
  • 9 Chickweed Lane
    9 Chickweed Lane

    9 Chickweed Lane is a comic strip by Brooke McEldowney which made its debut on August 2, 1993. 9 Chickweed Lane was the home of the women of three generations of the Burber family: Gran, Juliette and Edda....
  • Off The Mark
  • Over the Hedge
    Over the Hedge

    Over the Hedge is a print syndication comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. It tells the story of a raccoon, a turtle and a squirrel who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia, trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology while becoming enticed by it at the same time....
  • Peanuts
    Peanuts

    Peanuts is a print syndication daily strip and Sunday strip comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 , continuing in reruns afterward....
  • Pearls Before Swine
    Pearls Before Swine (comic strip)

    Pearls Before Swine is an United States comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California....
  • Reality Check
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!
    Ripley's Believe It or Not!

    Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims ....
  • Rose Is Rose
    Rose Is Rose

    Rose Is Rose is a syndicated comic strip, written by Pat Brady since its creation in 1984, and drawn since March 2004 by Don Wimmer. The strip revolves around Rose and Jimbo Gumbo, their son Pasquale, and the family cat Peekaboo....
  • Rudy Park
    Rudy Park

    Rudy Park is a syndicated comic strip created by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir that is distributed by United Media.The strip started in early 2001, when its principal character was laid off from his job at a dot-com company but eventually found a new job as a barista in a coffee shop/internet cafe, the House of Java Cybercafe....
  • Shortcuts
  • Silo Roberts
  • Soup To Nutz
    Soup to Nutz

    Soup to Nutz is a daily comic strip drawn by Rick Stromoski, who also is the artist behind Mullets . The comic launched in March 2000, and is syndicated by the United Media....
  • Spot the Frog
    Spot the Frog

    Spot the Frog was a nationally Print syndication newspaper comic strip written by Mark Heath. It tells the story of a talking frog named Spot that moves in with a man named Karl as a tenant in his aquarium, leaving the pond behind him....
  • The Sunshine Club
  • Tarzan
    Tarzan (comics)

    Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 in literature novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels....
  • Uncle Art's Funland
  • Unfit
  • World Of Wonder
    World of Wonder

    World of Wonder is an independent television and film production company based in Hollywood and London. It is most famous for making the documentary feature Inside Deep Throat, and the feature film Party Monster starring Macaulay Culkin....


Syndicated editorial cartoons


  • Robert Ariail
  • Bill Day
    Bill Day

    Bill Day is an American cartoonist best known for his editorial cartoons. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1996....
  • Bill Schorr
    Bill Schorr

    Bill Schorr is an American cartoonist who is probably best known for his print syndication editorial cartoons. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1993, and nominations for the same award for 1997 and 1998....
  • Ed Stein
    Ed Stein

    Edward F. Stein was a former Major League Baseball player who pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League from to ....
  • Etta Hulme
    Etta Hulme

    Etta Hulme is an United States editorial cartoonist. Her Print syndication cartoons have appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1972....
  • Henry Payne
    Henry Payne (cartoonist)

    Henry Payne is an United States editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News.Payne began cartooning when he was a student at Princeton University, drawing for two of its student publications, The Daily Princetonian and The Nassau Weekly....
  • Jerry Holbert
    Jerry Holbert

    Jerry Holbert is a cartoonist best known for his Print syndication editorial comic strip. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 2000 for his work....
  • Rob Rogers
    Rob Rogers

    Rob Rogers born 12th November 1983 is a FIFA Futsal Referee and League of Ireland referee. A notable entrant into RTE's Good, Bad and Ugly on their flagship League of Ireland Association Football Show MNS, for his "cheeky backheel"...
  • Jeff Stahler


Web-based features

These are published on Comics.com:

  • Barkeater Lake
    Barkeater Lake

    Barkeater Lake is an online comic strip by cartoonist Corey Pandolph, originally published by United Media as part of its "GoComics" webcomics from early 2004 through January 5, 2007....
     (moved to Universal Press Syndicate
    Universal Press Syndicate

    Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent Print syndication and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content....
    )
  • Ben
  • Boy on a Stick and Slither
    Boy on a Stick and Slither

    Boy on a Stick and Slither is a webcomic by Steven L. Cloud.Strips usually feature a short, pithy and sometimes surreal exchange between the title characters....
  • A Case in Point
  • Captain Murphey
  • Days of Thunder
  • Ellington Way
  • Jane's World
    Jane's World

    Jane's World is a comic strip by cartoonist Paige Braddock, which first debuted on 25 March 1998. It stars Jane Wyatt, a young lesbian woman living in a trailer with her roommate, Ethan....
     (discontinuted; currently in reruns)
  • Level Path
  • Meet the Ings (discontinued)
  • Minimum Security
    Minimum Security

    Minimum Security is a comic strip written and illustrated by Stephanie McMillan . It began in 1999, appearing in several Alternative weekly. It is frequently political, usually espousing a political radicalism, Environmentalism, Nihilism and/or Anarchism stance in most of the issues discussed....
  • Pibgorn (moved to Universal Press Syndicate
    Universal Press Syndicate

    Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, is the world's largest independent Print syndication and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content....
    )
  • Sheldon (discontinued)
  • Top of the World
  • Working Daze
    Working Daze

    Working Daze is a comic strip written by John Zakour It was originally drawn by Andre Noel in 2001, Kyle Miller replaced Noel in 2003. Miller left in 2008 and was replaced by Scott Roberts in June 2008....


Other

  • Red Green
  • El Chavo


Notable discontinued features

  • Roy Crane
    Roy Crane

    Royston Campbell Crane , who signed his work Roy Crane, was an United States cartoonist and creator of the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer....
     (Wash Tubbs
    Wash Tubbs

    Wash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1988.Initially titled Washington Tubbs II, Wash Tubbs was originally a gag-a-day strip which focused on the mundane misadventures of the title character, a bespectacled bumbler who ran a store....
    , Captain Easy
    Captain Easy

    Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that started Sunday, June 11, 1933 and was discontinued in 1988....
    )
  • Eyebeam
    Eyebeam (comic)

    Eyebeam was a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Sam Hurt at the University of Texas at Austin. Unlike most college strips, its popularity led to a print life past Hurt's graduation....
  • Suzie View
    Suzie View

    Suzie View was a syndicated cartoon produced by Tauhid Bondia and Erik McCurdy. Its main character is Suzie Vance, a 10 year old who, along with younger brother Miguel run "Suzie View productions", an independent film studio....
  • Mary Margaret McBride
    Mary Margaret McBride

    Mary Margaret McBride was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than forty years; she is also remembered for her few months of pioneering television, as an early sign of radio success not guaranteeing a transition to the new medium....
  • Garfield
    Garfield

    Garfield is a daily-syndicated comic strip created by Jim Davis . Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ; his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and the dog, Odie....
     moved to Universal Press Syndicate
  • Long Sam
    Long Sam

    Long Sam was an American comic strip created by Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner, and syndicated by United Media from 1954 to 1962. The strip was drawn by Bob Lubbers and initially written by Capp, who soon turned the duties over to his brother, Elliot Caplin....


NEA Christmas strip

Since 1936 NEA has produced an annual Christmas-themed daily comic strip for its subscribing newspapers as a holiday bonus. They typically ran for three-four weeks before Christmas, with the concluding installment on December 25 or a nearby date. Strip historian Allan Holtz notes over the years these strips have featured regular NEA characters, adapted classic Christmas stories, and original stories with single-appearance characters. The 1967 entry, "Bucky's Christmas Caper", was written and drawn by famed comic book creator Wally Wood
Wally Wood

Wallace Allan Wood was an United States comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad ....
.

NFL Awards

Beginning in 1954 the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) under the guidance of Murray Olderman
Murray Olderman

Murray Olderman is an artist who specialized in cartoons related to sports. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1974 and 1978....
 , began to poll NFL players and award what became known as the Player's All-Pro
All-Pro

All-Pro is a term mostly used in the National Football League for the best players of each position during that season. It began as polls of sportswriters in the early 1920s....
 team. In addition, the NEA awarded a Rookie of the Year, a Most Valuable Player, and a Defensive Player of the Year. All were acceptied as official and were published in the NFL Record and Fact Book alongside the Associated Press
Associated Press

The Associated Press is an Media of the United States news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, Radio station and Television station stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers....
, United Press International
United Press International

United Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising popularity of television news....
, and the Pro Football Writers Association
Pro Football Writers Association

Technically known as the Pro Football Writers of America, this organization purports to be "The official voice of pro football writers, promoting and fighting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public." Goals of the organization include improving access to practices and locker rooms, developing working relationships with all teams and en...
 All-Pro teams and awards. The NEA last announced awards in 1997, ending a 34-year tradition of the "Player's All-Pro Team". (The NEA list's successor, the Sporting News All-Pro team, currently polls players along with coaches and managers for its teams.)

The NFL MVP award was called the Jim Thorpe Award and began in 1955. The Defensive Player of the Year was named after Chicago Bear founder George S. Halas and its inception was 1966, the Rookie of the Year award was named after NFL commissioner Bert Bell and began in 1964. In the early 1960s the NEA began awarding the Third Down Trophy that symbolized each team's MVP. That began in the American Football League and included the NFL after the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.

Olderman, the driving force behind the Player's All-Pro teams and awards was also a fine artist and cartoonist. When the NEA news service released its stories on the annual NFL awards they were accompanied by artwork provided by Olderman to illustrate the stories.

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