United Media
Encyclopedia
United Media is a large editorial column and comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 syndication
Print syndication
Print syndication distributes news articles, columns, comic strips and other features to newspapers, magazines and websites. They offer reprint rights and grant permissions to other parties for republishing content of which they own/represent copyrights....

 service based in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. It syndicates 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. Its core business is the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Newspaper Enterprise Association used to present awards in professional and college football.

History

Edward Wyllis Scripps started his newspaper career in the 1880s, and owned 22 newspapers by 1910. In 1897, he created two companies, the Scripps-McRae Press Association and the Scripps News Association. In 1907, he combined a number of news providers into United Press Associations as a rival to Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

.

On June 2, 1902 the new Newspaper Enterprise Association, based in Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

, started as a news report service for different Scripps-owned newspapers. It started selling content to non-Scripps owned newspapers in 1907, and by 1909, it became a more general syndicate, offering comics, pictures and features as well. It moved from Cleveland to Chicago in 1915. NEA rapidly grew and delivered content to 400 newspapers in 1920 and about 700 in 1930. At that time, it had some 100 features available. Boyd Lewis became the executive editor of NEA Service in 1945.

On June 3, 2010, United Media sold their licensing arm, along with the rights to Peanuts
Peanuts
Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...

, to Iconix Brand Group
Iconix Brand Group
Iconix Brand Group is a brand management company that licenses brands to retailers and manufacturers primarily in the apparel, footwear, and apparel accessory industries. Its brands are available in such stores as Kohl's, Kmart, Sears, Macy's, Target and JC Penney.The company began as Candie's,...

.

On February 24, 2011, United Media struck a distribution deal with Universal Uclick
Universal Uclick
Universal Uclick is an American entertainment company owned by Andrews McMeel Universal. Universal Uclick is the world's largest independent press syndicate and provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and...

 for syndication of the former company's 150 comic strip and news features, which became effective on June 1.

Syndicated comic strips

  • Alley Oop
    Alley Oop
    Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association...

    by V. T. Hamlin
    V. T. Hamlin
    Vincent Trout Hamlin , who preferred the name V. T. Hamlin, created the popular, long-run comic strip Alley Oop, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association....

  • 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.- Cast :...

    by Jimmy Johnson
    Jimmy Johnson (cartoonist)
    Jimmy Johnson is an American comic strip cartoonist who writes and draws Arlo and Janis. He is an alumnus of Auburn University, class of 1974."My earliest cartoon work was copying Fred and Barney and Yogi Bear...

  • Betty
    Betty (comic strip)
    Betty is a Canadian comic strip written by Gary Delainey and drawn by Gerry Rasmussen. The comic is distributed by United Feature Syndicate.-History:Creators Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen first collaborated on the comic strip "Bub Slug" in 1976...

    by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen
  • Big Nate
    Big Nate
    Big Nate is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Lincoln Peirce. The strip is about a boy named Nate Wright, a rebellious and energetic sixth-grader, and his classmates and teachers. Nate is portrayed as a boy with little interest in studies or conforming to standards. Because of...

    by Lincoln Peirce
    Lincoln Peirce
    Lincoln Peirce is a mexican cartoonist who writes the comic strip Big Nate. Peirce is from Portland, Maine, lives with his wife and two children, and occasionally gives lectures to students about cartoon creating....

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

    by Art Sansom
    Art Sansom
    Arthur B. Sansom , better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip The Born Loser....

  • Brevity
  • The Buckets
    The Buckets
    The Buckets is also an informal name used to describe the former Disneyland attraction, the Skyway.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 Feature Syndicates, Inc....

  • 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...

  • Dilbert
    Dilbert
    Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. First published on April 16, 1989, Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character...

  • Drabble
  • F Minus
    F Minus
    F Minus is a horizontally oriented single 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....

  • Family Tree
    Family tree
    A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. The more detailed family trees used in medicine, genealogy, and social work are known as genograms.-Family tree representations:...

  • Ferd'nand
    Ferd'nand
    Ferd'nand is a pantomime comic strip notable for its lack of word balloons and captions, lack of continuity and its longevity .-Background:Ferd'nand was first published in 1937 by the Presse-Illustrations-Bureau of Copenhagen...

  • 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 syndicated comic strip by Jef Mallett that, on the surface, is about school custodian Edwin "Frazz" Frazier and the school where he works, but which, according to Mallett, is really about discovery. 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 advertising executive Rob Wilco and his two anthropomorphic pets: dog Satchel Pooch and cat Bucky Katt. Get Fuzzy has been published by United Feature Syndicate since September...

  • Graffiti
  • Grand Avenue
  • The Grizzwells
  • Health Capsules
  • Herman
    Herman (comic strip)
    Herman was a comic strip written and drawn by Jim Unger. While the daily ran as a single panel with a typeset caption, it expanded on Sunday as a full multi-panel strip with balloons.It was syndicated from 1975 to 1992, when Unger retired...

  • Jump Start
  • Kid City
  • KidSpot
  • Kit 'n' Carlyle
    Kit 'n' Carlyle
    Kit 'n' Carlyle is an American daily comic strip. It was started in 1980 by cartoonist Larry Wright, who is also the editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News. The strip is a single-panel strip syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc. Its gags center on a single woman named Kit and her...

  • Knight Life, The
  • Lola
  • Luann
    Luann (comic strip)
    Luann is a syndicated newspaper comic strip distributed by United Features Syndicate since 17 March 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 , and Paul Anderson. The strip revolves around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke...

  • Moderately Confused
  • Monty
    Monty (comic strip)
    Monty is an American comic strip created, written and illustrated by cartoonist Jim Meddick.-Robotman:The comic strip began as Robotman in 1985. It originally depicted the exploits of a small robot who believed he was an extraterrestrial visiting Earth, living with the ordinary Milde family...

  • Nancy
    Nancy (comic strip)
    Nancy is an American daily and Sunday comic strip, originally written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller and distributed by United Feature Syndicate....

  • 9 Chickweed Lane
    9 Chickweed Lane
    9 Chickweed Lane is an American comic strip written and drawn by Brooke McEldowney following the fortunes of the women of three generations of the Burber family — Edna, Juliette, and Edda — as they try to make their way in the world. 9 Chickweed Lane is the address of their former family home. ...

  • Off The Mark
    Off The Mark
    Off The Mark is a comic panel created by Mark Parisi which began in 1987 and now appears in 100 newspapers. It also appears on greeting cards, in magazines, on T-shirts and more. Off The Mark is distributed daily by United Media....

  • Over the Hedge
    Over the Hedge
    Over the Hedge is a syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. It tells the story of a raccoon, turtle, a squirrel, and their friends who come to terms with their woodlands being taken over by suburbia, trying to survive the increasing flow of humanity and technology...

  • Pearls Before Swine
    Pearls Before Swine (comic strip)
    Pearls Before Swine is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis, who was formerly a lawyer in San Francisco, California. It chronicles the daily lives of four anthropomorphic animals, Pig, Rat, Zebra, and Goat, as well as a number of supporting characters...

  • Prickly City
    Prickly City
    Prickly City is a daily comic strip drawn by Scott Stantis, the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, and distributed through United Features Syndicate. The cartoon follows the adventures of Carmen, a young Hispanic girl in pigtails, and a coyote pup named Winslow...

  • Reality Check
  • Rip Haywire
  • 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,...

  • Shortcuts
  • Soup To Nutz
    Soup to Nutz
    Soup to Nutz is a daily comic strip drawn by Rick Stromoski, who also is the artist behind The Mullets. The comic launched in March 2000, and is syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. It centers around the Nutz family, particularly the three children in the family.- Characters :Roy...

  • Tarzan
    Tarzan (comics)
    Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in 23 sequels. The character proved immensely popular and quickly made the jump to other media, including comics.-Comic strips:...

  • Uncle Art's Funland
  • Winthrop
  • World of Wonder

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
Allan Holtz
Allan Holtz is a comic strip historian who researches and writes about newspaper comics for his Stripper's Guide, launched in 2005. His research encompasses some 7,000 American comic strips and newspaper panels...

 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 American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. He was one of Mads founding cartoonists in 1952. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he...

.

Discontinued comic strips

  • Boots and Her Buddies
    Boots and Her Buddies
    Boots and Her Buddies is an American comic strip by Edgar Everett Martin. Syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, it ran from 1924 to 1969. Some newspapers ran the strip under the shortened title Boots...

    by Edgar Martin
    Edgar Martin
    Edgar Everett Martin , known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, Boots and Her Buddies, running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 60,000,000 readers.Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the youth moved with his family to Nashville,...

  • 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. The strip ran in the college's Daily Texan from 1980–1990, though primeval examples from 1978-1979...

  • Flapper Fanny Says
    Flapper Fanny Says
    Flapper Fanny Says from Newspaper Enterprise Association was a single-panel daily cartoon series starting in about 1924, with a Sunday page following in 1928. Each episode featured a flapper illustration and a witticism. It continued into the 1940s as Flapper Fanny.At the start, the panel was drawn...

  • Freckles and His Friends
    Freckles and His Friends
    Freckles and his Friends was a popular American comic strip set in the peaceful small town of Shadyside where young Freckles McGoosey and his friends live...

    by Merrill Blosser
    Merrill Blosser
    Merrill Blosser was the creator of the comic strip Freckles and His Friends, which had a long run . Although his strip was set in the small town of Shadyside, it was obviously based on Blosser's hometown of Nappanee, Indiana, since Blosser often referenced real Nappanee locations, such as...

  • Garfield
    Garfield
    Garfield is a 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 Arbuckle's dog, Odie...

    moved to Universal Press Syndicate
    Universal Press Syndicate
    Universal Press Syndicate, a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, is the world's largest independent press syndicate. It distributes lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content. Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert and News of the Weird...

  • Long Sam
    Long Sam
    Long Sam was an American comic strip created by Al Capp, writer-artist of Li'l Abner, and illustrated by Bob Lubbers. It was syndicated by United Feature Syndicate from 1954 to 1962. The strip was initially written by Capp, who soon turned the duties over to his brother, Elliot Caplin...

    by Bob Lubbers
    Bob Lubbers
    Bob Lubbers is an American comic strip and comic book artist best known for his work on such strips as Tarzan, Li'l Abner and Long Sam.-Biography:...

  • Our Boarding House
    Our Boarding House
    Our Boarding House was a long-running, American gag-panel comic strip created by Gene Ahern in 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs...

  • Out Our Way
    Out Our Way
    Out Our Way was a single-panel cartoon by J. R. Williams which was syndicated for decades after it first appeared in a half-dozen small-market newspapers on March 20, 1922.-Characters and story:...

  • Peanuts
    Peanuts
    Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...

    (October 2, 1950-February 26, 2011) moved to Universal Uclick
    Universal Uclick
    Universal Uclick is an American entertainment company owned by Andrews McMeel Universal. Universal Uclick is the world's largest independent press syndicate and provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and...

  • Strange as It Seems
  • 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. Suzie's over-zealous attitude to film production can irritate the...

  • Wash Tubbs
    Wash Tubbs
    Wash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to January 10, 1988.Initially titled Washington Tubbs II, it originally was a gag-a-day strip which focused on the mundane misadventures of the title character, a bespectacled bumbler who ran a store. However, Crane soon...

    and Captain Easy
    Captain Easy
    Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933...

    by Roy Crane
    Roy Crane
    Royston Campbell Crane , who signed his work Roy Crane, was an influential American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre. Comics historian...


Syndicated editorial cartoons

  • Robert Ariail
  • Bill Day
  • Bill Schorr
    Bill Schorr
    Bill Schorr is an American cartoonist of syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips.Schorr retired in March 2009 but came out of retirement by August of the same year.-Comic strips:...

  • Ed Stein
    Ed Stein
    Edward F. Stein was a former Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Chicago Colts and Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms of the National League from to .-Chicago:...

  • Mike Lester
    Mike Lester
    Michael Eugene "Mike" Lester is a conservative editorial cartoonist and artist who has worked as a children's book illustrator. He received the National Cartoonists Society Book Illustration Award for 2000 for the book A Is for Salad.- External links :**-References:...

  • Henry Payne
    Henry Payne (cartoonist)
    Henry Payne is an American 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 syndicated editorial comic strip. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 2000 for his work.Holbert grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey....

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

  • Jeff Stahler
  • Matt Bors

Web features

These are published on GoComics
GoComics
GoComics is a website launched in 2005 by the digital entertainment provider Uclick. It was originally created as a distribution portal for comic strips on mobile phones, but in 2006, the site was redesigned and expanded to include online strips and cartoons...

:
  • Jane's World
    Jane's World
    Jane's World is a comic strip by cartoonist Paige Braddock. Debuting on March 25, 1998 it stars Jane Wyatt, a young lesbian woman living in a trailer with her roommate, Ethan, and follows the life of her and her circle of friends...

  • Minimum Security
    Minimum Security
    Minimum Security is a comic strip written and illustrated by Stephanie McMillan. It began in 1999, appearing in several alternative weeklies...

  • Working Daze
    Working Daze
    Working Daze is a comic strip written by John Zakour It was co-created with Andre Noel in the late 1990s, and first appeared under the title "Modern Daze" on intranetjournal.co. Picked up by United Media, it began its run under the current title on December 17, 2001. Noel left in 2003, and Kyle...


Syndicated columns

  • Miss Manners by Judith Martin
    Judith Martin
    Judith Martin , better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority. Martin's uncle was economist and labor historian Selig Perlman.- Early life and career :...

  • NextSteps by Jan L. Warner and Jan K. Collins
  • Sense & Sensitivity by Harriette Cole
    Harriette Cole
    Harriette Cole , is a life stylist, author, nationally syndicated advice columnist, motivational speaker, media trainer, magazine editor, lifestyle writer, wife and mother.- Early life :...

  • Among Friends by Tad Bartimus
  • Byron York
    Byron York
    Byron York is a conservative American columnist for the Washington Examiner, Fox News contributor, and author who lives in Washington, D.C.-Career:...

  • Cokie Roberts
    Cokie Roberts
    Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts , best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling 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 Christiane...

     and Steven V. Roberts
    Steven V. Roberts
    Steven V. Roberts is an American journalist, writer, political commentator.Roberts grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey and graduated from Bayonne High School. He attended Harvard where he served as editor of the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. After graduating with a B.A...

  • Diana West
    Diana West
    Diana West is a nationally syndicated conservative American columnist and author. Her weekly column for the Washington Examiner is syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and appears in about 120 newspapers. She is the author of the book The Death of the Grown Up: How America's Arrested...

  • Donald Lambro
    Donald Lambro
    Donald Lambro is an Albanian American journalist. He is the chief political correspondent of The Washington Times and a columnist nationally syndicated by United Feature Syndicate....

  • Gene Lyons
    Gene Lyons
    Gene Lyons is a liberal political columnist and co-author with Joe Conason of The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, a documentary book published in 2000, with a supporting film. The book outlines a purported right wing campaign waged against...

  • Harper's Magazine
    Harper's Magazine
    Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...

  • Kathryn Jean Lopez
    Kathryn Jean Lopez
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, is an American conservative columnist who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate.She is also the editor of National Review Online...

  • Mary Mitchell
  • Morton Kondracke
  • The New Republic
    The New Republic
    The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

  • Salon
    Salon.com
    Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...

  • Sweet Land of Liberty by Nat Hentoff
    Nat Hentoff
    Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff is an American 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 American magazine published monthly by Consumers Union since 1936. It publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides...

  • 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...

  • Smart Money by Bruce Williams
  • Talking Money with Jean Chatzky
    Jean Chatzky
    Jean Sherman Chatzky is an American financial journalist, author and motivational speaker. Chatzky has given personal financial advice on various TV shows...

  • workplace911 by Bob Rosner
  • Ask Mr. Know-It-All by Gary Lee Clothier
  • Starlight
  • Tune in Tomorrow by Nancy Reichardt
  • Tune in Tonight by Kevin McDonough
  • World Almanac
    World Almanac
    In 1993 Scripps sold the Almanac to K-III .The World Almanac was sold to Ripplewood Holdings' WRC Media in 1999. Ripplewood bought Reader's Digest and the book was then produced by the World Almanac Education Group, which was owned by The Reader's Digest Association...

     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 American food writer, best known for writing about low carbohydrate dieting. Carpender lives with her husband in Bloomington, Indiana. She is also the great-niece of Arthur S...

  • Eat In and Save by Marialisa Calta
  • On Nutrition by Ed Blonz
  • The Aces on Bridge by Bobby Wolff
    Bobby Wolff
    Robert S. Wolff is an American 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. The Aces were successful and won their first world championship in 1970...

  • NEA Bridge by Phillip Alder
  • Dr. Gott by Peter Gott
    Peter Gott
    Peter Gott was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1690 to 1695 and again from 1698 to 1701.He died aged 56.-References:...

  • The Harvard Medical School
    Harvard Medical School
    Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....

     Adviser
  • Astro-Graph by Bernice Bede Osol
  • Your Birthday by Stella Wilder
  • Your Stars This Week by Stella Wilder
  • 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
  • Animal Doctor by Michael Fox, D.V.M.
  • On Religion by Terry Mattingly
    Terry Mattingly
    Terry L. Mattingly is a journalist, author, and professor. As columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, Mattingly has written "On Religion," a nationally syndicated column, since the summer of 1988...

  • Win, Lose & Drew

Other

Syndicated puzzles
  • Today's Daily Crossword
  • Today's Sunday Crossword
  • KenKen
    KenKen
    KenKen or KenDoku is a style of arithmetic and logic puzzle invented in 2004 by the Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto, an innovator who says he practices "the art of teaching without teaching". He intends the puzzles as an instruction-free method of training the brain...

  • Sudoku
    Sudoku
    is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...

  • Kakuro

Licensed properties

  • El Chavo 
  • Precious Moments
  • Raggedy Ann
    Raggedy Ann
    Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair and has a triangle nose...


Discontinued features

  • Mary Margaret McBride
    Mary Margaret McBride
    Mary Margaret McBride was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 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...

  • Herblock
    Herblock
    Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock , was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on national domestic and foreign policy from a liberal perspective.-Career:...

     (1933–1943)
  • John Fischetti
    John Fischetti
    John R. Fischetti was an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Daily News. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous awards from the National Cartoonists Society.- Biography :Born in Brooklyn, New York, where his Italian father was a...

     (1951–1962)
  • Washington Merry-Go-Round by Drew Pearson
    Drew Pearson (journalist)
    Andrew Russell Pearson , known professionally as Drew Pearson, was one of the best-known American columnists of his day, noted for his muckraking syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round," in which he attacked various public persons, sometimes with little or no objective proof for his...

     and Jack Anderson
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NFL awards

Beginning in 1954 the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), under the guidance of Murray Olderman
Murray Olderman
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 http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/MurrayOlderman.htm, began to poll NFL players and award what became known as the Players' All-Pro
All-Pro
All-Pro is a term mostly used in the NFL 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 (since 1955), and a Defensive Player of the Year (George S. Halas Trophy; 1966–96). All were accepted as official and were published in the NFL Record and Fact Book alongside the Associated Press
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, United Press International
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, and the Pro Football Writers Association
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 All-Pro teams and awards. The NEA last announced awards in 1997 and last had an All-Pro team in 1992, 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.) From the early 1980s the NEA All-Pro team was released in the World Almanac
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which was a NEA publication.

The NFL MVP award was called the Jim Thorpe Trophy and began in 1955 (not to be confused with college football's Jim Thorpe Award
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). The Defensive Player of the Year was named after Chicago Bears 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 and ran through 1979. Currently the Jim Thorpe Trophy is still awarded, through the Jim Thorpe Association of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is awarded to the NFL Most Valuable Player and is voted upon my members of the NFLPA.

Olderman, the driving force behind the Players' 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.

College football awards

NEA was the selector of All-America teams, a practice that ended in 1992.

External links

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