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Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal

Andrews McMeel Universal

Andrews McMeel Universal is an United States corporation. It was founded in 1970 by University of Notre Dame alumni James Andrews and John McMeel as Universal Press Syndicate and was renamed in 1997 to AMU to reflect the diversification that had taken place since its founding....
company, is the world's largest independent press syndicate

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....
and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle

Lifestyle

Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives....
and opinion column

Column

File:National Capitol Columns - Washington, D.C..jpgA column in structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through physical compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below....
s, comics

Comics

Comics is a graphic Mass media in which are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey comic themes, came to be applied to all uses of this medium including those which are far from comic....
, and various other content. Some of the most popular columns include Dear Abby

Dear Abby

Dear Abby is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name, Abigail Van Buren, and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name....
, Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

Ann Hart Coulter is an United States political commentator, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events....
, Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert born June 18, 1942) is an United States film criticism and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and At the Movies , which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel....
and News of the Weird

News of the Weird

News of the Weird is a Print syndication newspaper column edited by Chuck Shepherd that collects bizarre news stories. It was created in 1988....
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Universal Press Syndicate was founded by John McMeel and Jim Andrews in 1970. The two graduates of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Roman Catholic Church University located in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. It was founded by Father Edward Sorin, Congregation of Holy Cross, who was also the school's first president....
first big strip came after Andrews was reading the Yale Daily News
Yale Daily News

The Yale Daily News is a newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878. The paper's first editors wrote:...
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Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal

Andrews McMeel Universal

Print syndication

Lifestyle

Column

Comics

Dear Abby

Ann Coulter

Roger Ebert

News of the Weird

University of Notre Dame

Garry Trudeau

Garretson Beekman Trudeau is an United States cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip....
. Universal Press would later accept Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury
Doonesbury

Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters of different ages, professions, and backgrounds?from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a middle-aged, remarried father....
for syndication.

Popular Universal Press Syndicate comics include For Better or For Worse
For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979, and ended the main story on August 30, 2008, with a postscript epilogue the following day....
, FoxTrot, Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip Writing and Illustration by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin , an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes , his energetic and sardonic?albeit stuffed?tiger....
, 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....
, The Boondocks
The Boondocks

The Boondocks was a daily print syndication comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder. Created by McGruder in 1996 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, the strip moved from the college pages and was printed in the monthly hip hop culture magazine The Source in 19...
, Doonesbury
Doonesbury

Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters of different ages, professions, and backgrounds?from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a middle-aged, remarried father....
, Cathy
Cathy (comic strip)

Cathy is a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. Featuring a woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life — food, love, mom, and work — the strip gently pokes fun at the lives and foibles of modern women....
, Pooch Cafe
Pooch Café

Pooch Caf? is a comic strip written and illustrated by Paul Gilligan....
, Baldo
Baldo

Baldo is an American comic strip written by Hector Cant? and illustrated by Carlos Castellanos. It was launched in April of 2000, and is widely billed as the first comic strip featuring Latino characters and themes to be marketed to a mainstream audience....
, Prickly City
Prickly City

Prickly City is a daily comic strip drawn by Scott Stantis, the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News, and distributed through Universal Press Syndicate....
, Ink Pen
Ink Pen

Ink Pen is a daily comic strip by Phil Dunlap that started in 2005 and is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.This comic strip is about an employment agency for out-of-work cartoon characters....
, Lio
Lio

Lio is a Belgium singer and actor, born as Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos in 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. In 1968, she and her family moved to Belgium....
, Cul de Sac
Cul de Sac (comic strip)

Cul de Sac is a daily comic strip created by Richard Thompson and syndicated through Universal Press Syndicate. The strip focuses on a pre-school girl named Alice Otterloop and her daily life at school and at home....
, Ziggy
Ziggy

Ziggy is a cartoon created by Tom Wilson , an American Greetings executive. The character was originally inspired by the comic "Zigfried Schlump" drawn by a college student with the pseudonym "clawmute" at the University of Akron, in Ohio....
, Tom the Dancing Bug
Tom the Dancing Bug

Tom the Dancing Bug is a weekly comic strip by Ruben Bolling which presents critical commentary on modern life, current events, and conventional wisdom and clich?s....
, and The Far Side
The Far Side

The Far Side is a popular one-panel print syndication comic strip created by Gary Larson. Its surrealism humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, or the search for meaning in life....
during its rise in newspapers, calendars and books.

Universal Syndicates the editorial cartoonists Ben Sargent

Ben Sargent

Ben Sargent is an American editorial cartoonist. Since 1974, he has been drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman. His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate....
, Pat Oliphant

Pat Oliphant

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant is the most widely print syndication political cartoonist in the world, described by the New York Times as "the most influential cartoonist now working"....
, Tom Toles

Tom Toles

Thomas Gregory Toles is a Left-wing politics United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning....
, Glenn McCoy

Glenn McCoy

Glenn McCoy is an American Conservatism in the United States cartoonist, whose work includes popular comic strip The Duplex and the daily panel he does with his brother Gary entitled The Flying McCoys....
, Ted Rall

Ted Rall

Ted Rall , is an American liberal columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions....
, and Don "Bad Reporter" Asmussen

Don Asmussen

Don Asmussen is an American cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Asmussen was born in 1967 in Rhode Island. He has worked at the Portland Press Herald, The Detroit News, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and Time Magazine....
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Universal Syndicates crossword puzzles and games edited by Timothy Parker

Timothy Parker

Timothy Eric Parker is a United States puzzle editor and constructor. He is currently the crossword editor of USA Today.Parker grew up in Baltimore, Maryland with nine siblings, and attempted his first crossword puzzle at age 12....
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Universal Press Syndicate's sister company, uclick, runs the GoComics

GoComics

GoComics.com is a website by U.S.-based digital entertainment provider UCLICK. The site, which launched in 2005, was originally created to be a distribution portal for comic strips on mobile phones....
website.

Universal Press Syndicate is credited at the end of The Boondocks
The Boondocks

The Boondocks was a daily print syndication comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder. Created by McGruder in 1996 for The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park, the strip moved from the college pages and was printed in the monthly hip hop culture magazine The Source in 19...
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.

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