Universal Press Syndicate

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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, 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.com website. Universal Press Syndicate is credited at the end of The Boondocks TV show.

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Universal Press Syndicate Comics

Currently published

Adam@home Agnes BaldoBob the SquirrelThe Boondocks Calvin and Hobbes Cathy Clear Blue Water Cleats Close to Home Condorito Cornered Cul de Sac Doonesbury The Elderberries The 5th Wave The Flying McCoys For Better or For Worse FoxTrot Fred Basset The Fusco Brothers Garfield Gaturro Gil Thorp Ginger Meggs Heart of the City In the Bleachers Ink Pen James Bond Judge Dredd La Cucaracha Leyendas Mticas Liberty Meadows Liō Lucky Cow Maintaining The Meaning of Lila Modesty Blaise Monica's Gang Mutt & Jeff Non Sequitur OverboardPeanuts (reruns) Pepe Pooch Caf Preteena Prickly City Princess Ai Real Life Adventures Ronaldinho Gaucho Tank McNamara Tom the Dancing Bug Tutelandia Ziggy

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Universal Press Syndicate columns

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

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Print syndication is a form of in which news articles, columns, or comic strips are made available to newspapers and magazines.

There are several prominent syndication services operating across the globe such as The New York Times News Service , Tribune Media Services ,
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Dear Abby is a syndicated advice column started during 1956 by Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips and currently written by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips. Abigail Van Buren has been the pen name used by both writers for the column.
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Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative columnist, political commentator and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio and as a speaker at public and private events.
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Roger Ebert

Russ Meyer (left) and Roger Ebert (right) (1970)
Born: May 18 1942 (age 65)
Urbana, Illinois, U.S.
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William Francis "Bill" Buckley, Jr. (born November 24, 1925) is an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted the television show Firing Line
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News of the Weird is a syndicated newspaper column edited by Chuck Shepherd that collects bizarre news stories. It was created in 1988. As of 2006, it is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and published in more than 250 newspapers in the United States and Canada.
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Year 1970 (MCMLXX
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Garry Trudeau

Birth name Garretson Beekman Trudeau
Born July 21 1948 (age 59)
New York City, New York

Nationality American

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Doonesbury is a comic strip by G. B. Trudeau. It 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, a
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For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979. The strip is set in the fictitious Toronto-area suburban town of Milborough, Ontario; it chronicles the lives of a Canadian family and their friends.
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Foxtrot (also: "Fox trot", "foxtrot", "fox trot") is a ballroom dance which takes its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox. According to legend, Fox was unable to find female dancers capable of performing the more difficult two-step.
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Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger.
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Followed by 'U.S. Acres' Garfield is a daily-syndicated comic strip created by Jim Davis. It chronicles the life of the title character, Garfield, a tabby cat, his owner, Jon Arbuckle, and the dog, Odie.
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Boondocks are remote, usually brushy areas. It may also refer to:

The Boondocks (comic strip), a comic strip
The Boondocks (TV series), a television series
"Boondocks" (song), a 2005 single by Little Big Town

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Cathy is a daily comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. This is perhaps one of the worst comics ever written. It's obnoxious and plays upon stereotypes that have been far too misused.
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Pooch Café is a comic strip written and illustrated by Paul Gilligan. Its main character is Poncho, a kibble-loving, cat-hating, toilet drinking enthusiastic but dim dog; the strip follows Poncho's life with his masters, Chazz and his wife Carmen, and Poncho's adventures
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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.
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Lio is a Belgian singer and actress, born as Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos in 1962 in Mangualde, Portugal. In 1968, she and her family moved to Belgium.

Biography

She was an enormous pop icon in francophone Europe during the 1980s.
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Cul de Sac are a rock music group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members.
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Ziggy is a cartoon 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.
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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 clichés. (There are no bugs or dancing involved and there are no characters named Tom.
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Ben Sargent (born 1948) 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.
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Patrick "Pat" Oliphant (b. July 24, 1935 in Adelaide, Australia) is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, described by the New York Times as "the most influential cartoonist now working".
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Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of
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Glenn McCoy is an American cartoonist, whose work includes popular comic strip The Duplex.

Life

Glenn McCoy was born in 1965 and began drawing only four years later under the supervision of his older brother and grandfather.
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Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a liberal columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist whose political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format. His cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States.
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Don Asmussen is an editorial 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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