Creators Syndicate is an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns

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....

 for daily newspapers. It was founded in 1987 by Richard S. Newcombe

Richard S. Newcombe

Richard S. Newcombe is the founder and president of Creators Syndicate. Founded in 1987, his syndicate was the first to work toward a more equitable arrangement between syndicates and the talent that they represent. Newcombe continues to head up Creators, which is headquartered in Los Angeles,...

, and is based in Los Angeles. Creators was one of the first syndicates to allow its clients to maintain creative control of their material. Since its inception, Creators has become only the second major independent syndicate founded since the 1930s.

Founding of Creators Syndicate

Richard S. Newcombe

Richard S. Newcombe

Richard S. Newcombe is the founder and president of Creators Syndicate. Founded in 1987, his syndicate was the first to work toward a more equitable arrangement between syndicates and the talent that they represent. Newcombe continues to head up Creators, which is headquartered in Los Angeles,...

 accomplished what most industry analysts considered impossible: He founded the first successful independent newspaper syndication company in two decades—only the second major independent syndicate started since the 1930s.

When Rick Newcombe left News America Syndicate after it was sold to King Features, his upstart syndicate was quickly given substantial fire power when Ann Landers and Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society...

 signed on. Within a few months 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:...

 joined the team, and Creators Syndicate hasn't looked back.

Awards and recognition

Creators Syndicate has more Pulitzer Prize winners than any other syndicate. This list includes Steve Benson, Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz

Connie Schultz , of Avon, Ohio, has been a nationally syndicated columnist based at The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and had been finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing....

, Steve Breen

Steve Breen

Stephen Paul Breen is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009....

 and two-time winners Mike Luckovich

Mike Luckovich

Michael Edward Luckovich is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989...

, Michael Ramirez

Michael Ramirez

Michael Patrick Ramirez is a two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons typically present conservative viewpoints....

 and Paul Szep

Paul Szep

Paul Michael Szep is a celebrated political cartoonist. He was the chief editorial cartoonist at the Boston Globe from 1967–2001 and has been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for Editorial Cartooning in 1974 and 1977. Szep also won the prestigious...

.

In addition to Pulitzer Prizes, Creators has a stellar comics section responsible of winning many different categories of Reuben Awards, for cartoon excellence. Included in this list are best cartoon winners B.C.

B.C. (comic strip)

B.C. is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Johnny Hart. Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras...

, Wizard of Id, Momma

Momma

Momma is an English language comic strip by Mell Lazarus which debuted on October 26, 1970. Initially distributed by the Publishers-Hall Syndicate, it is currently handled by Creators Syndicate and published in more than 400 newspapers worldwide....

and Speed Bump

Speed bump

A speed bump is a speed-reducing feature of road design to slow traffic or reduce through traffic, via...

. Winners in other categories include Ballard Street

Ballard Street

Ballard Street is a comic panel created by Jerry Van Amerongen and distributed by Creators Syndicate that has run since 1991.-About the Comic:...

, Chip Bok

Chip Bok

Chip Bok is an American editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1995 and 1999.-External links:*...

, Archie

Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

and many others.

Columnists

• Michael Barone
  Michael Barone (pundit)
  Michael Barone is a conservative American political analyst, pundit and journalist. He is best known for being the principal author of The Almanac of American Politics, a reference work concerning US governors and federal politicians, and published biennially by National Journal...
  
  
• Austin Bay
• Tony Blankley
  Tony Blankley
  Anthony “Tony” Blankley is an Executive Vice President with Edelman public relations in Washington, a Visiting Senior Fellow in National-Security Communications at the Heritage Foundation, weekly contributor to the nationally syndicated public radio program Left, Right & Center, author of The...
  
  
• Andy Borowitz
  Andy Borowitz
  Andy Borowitz is a comedian and New York Times bestselling author who won the first National Press Club award for humor. He is best known for creating the satirical website , which has an audience in the millions...
  
  
• L. Brent Bozell III
• Pat Buchanan
  Pat Buchanan
  Patrick Joseph "Pat" Buchanan is an American paleoconservative political commentator, author, syndicated columnist, politician and broadcaster. Buchanan was a senior adviser to American Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's Crossfire. He sought...
  
  
• Steve Chapman
  Steve Chapman
  Professor Stephen Kenneth Chapman FRSE FRSC CChem PhD is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mona Charen
  Mona Charen
  Mona Charen is an American columnist, political analyst, and the author of two best-selling books, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First and Do-Gooders: How Liberals Harm Those They Claim to Help — and the Rest of Us . Her political stance is...
  
  
• Linda Chavez
  Linda Chavez
  Linda Chavez is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies:...
  
  
• Alexander Cockburn
  Alexander Cockburn
  Alexander Claud Cockburn is an American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch...
  
  
• Joe Conason
  Joe Conason
  Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and political commentator. He writes a column for the weekly New York Observer newspaper, for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies , which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.-Life and...
  
  
• Larry Elder
  Larry Elder
  Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder is an American radio and television personality. His radio program The Larry Elder Show airs weekdays 9 AM to noon on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles, California...
  
  
• Jackie Gingrich Cushman
• Diane Dimond
  Diane Dimond
  Diane Dimond is a television journalist, reporter and host. She is best known for her work as a correspondent on Hard Copy, Extra, and Entertainment Tonight.-Career:...
  
  
• Susan Estrich
  Susan Estrich
  Susan Estrich is an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News.-Early life:...
  
  
• Joseph Farah
  Joseph Farah
  -External links:* Official website* *...
  
  
• Suzanne Fields
• Froma Harrop
  Froma Harrop
  Froma Harrop is a liberal writer and author.She is best known for her twice-a-week syndicated column which appears in about 200 newspapers including the Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Detroit News, and Miami Herald...
  
  
• David Harsanyi
  David Harsanyi
  David Harsanyi is an American journalist. He is a nationally syndicated columnist. Formerly an opinion columnist at The Denver Post, his writings on politics and culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Washington Post, National Review, Reason, Christian Science Monitor,...
  
  
• Jim Hightower
  Jim Hightower
  James Allen "Jim" Hightower is an American syndicated columnist, activist and author.-Life and career:Born in Denison, Texas, Hightower came from a working class background. He worked his way through college as assistant general manager of the Denton Chamber of Commerce and later landed a spot as...
  
  
• Terence P. Jeffrey
• Lawrence Kudlow
  Lawrence Kudlow
  Lawrence "Larry" Kudlow is an American economist, television personality, and newspaper columnist. He is the host of CNBC's The Kudlow Report. As a syndicated columnist, his articles appear in numerous U.S. newspapers and web sites, including his own blog, Kudlow's Money Politic$.-Early...
  
  
• Mark Levy
  Mark Levy (reporter)
  Marc Levy is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania, working for the Associated Press.In 2008, the political website PolitickerPA.com named him one of the "Most Powerful Political Reporters" in Pennsylvania.-References:...
  
  
• Ann Landers
• David Limbaugh
  David Limbaugh
  David Limbaugh is a conservative American political commentator and author.-Biography:Limbaugh was born on December 11, 1952 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He is the younger brother of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh...
  
  
• Michelle Malkin
  Michelle Malkin
  Michelle Malkin is an American conservative blogger, political commentator, and author. Her weekly syndicated column appears in a number of newspapers and websites. She is a Fox News Channel contributor and has been a guest on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and national radio programs...
  
  
• Dennis Mammana
  Dennis Mammana
  Dennis Mammana is an astronomy writer, lecturer and sky photographer. His newspaper column "Stargazers" has run weekly since 1992, and his photos can be seen in national and international media.-Early years:...
  
  
• Roland S. Martin
  Roland S. Martin
  Roland Sebastian Martin is an American journalist and syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate and author of Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America, Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith and The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House as originally...
  
  
• Dick Morris
  Dick Morris
  Dick Morris is an American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant....
  
  
• William Murchison
  William Murchison (journalist)
  William Murchison is a nationally syndicated political columnist in the United States. Murchison is normally of a conservative political persuasion. He is also a regular contributor to Chronicles and The Lone Star Report...
  
  
• Chuck Norris
  Chuck Norris
  Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris is an American martial artist and actor. After serving in the United States Air Force, he began his rise to fame as a martial artist and has since founded his own school, Chun Kuk Do...
  
  
• Oliver North
  Oliver North
  Oliver Laurence North is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, political commentator, host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel, a military historian, and a New York Times best-selling author....
  
  
• Bill O'Reilly
  Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
  William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news television program on American television...
  
  
• Miguel Perez
• Dennis Prager
  Dennis Prager
  Dennis Prager is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. He is noted for his conservative political and social views emanating from conservative Judeo-Christian values. He holds that there is an "American Trinity" of essential principles,...
  
  
• Deb Price
• Paul Craig Roberts
  Paul Craig Roberts
  Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and...
  
  
• Debra Saunders
  Debra Saunders
  Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, her thrice weekly column is also carried by newspapers throughout the country and on townhall.com. Saunders also blogs for the Chronicle under the moniker Token Conservative...
  
  
• Robert Scheer
  Robert Scheer
  Robert Scheer is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig which is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation...
  
  
• Phyllis Schlafly
  Phyllis Schlafly
  Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly is a Constitutional lawyer and an American politically conservative activist and author who founded the Eagle Forum. She is known for her opposition to modern feminism ideas and for her campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment...
  
  
• Connie Schultz
  Connie Schultz
  Connie Schultz , of Avon, Ohio, has been a nationally syndicated columnist based at The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and had been finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing....
  
  
• Ben Shapiro
  Ben Shapiro
  Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, radio talk show host, attorney, and media consultant. A native of Los Angeles, Shapiro graduated from high school at age 16 and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard Law School...
  
  
• Mark Shields
  Mark Shields
  Mark Shields is an American political columnist and commentator.Since 1988, Shields has provided weekly political analysis and commentary for PBS’ award-winning PBS NewsHour. His current sparring partner is David Brooks of The New York Times. Previous counterparts were the late William Safire,...
  
  
• Roger Simon
• Lenore Skenazy
  Lenore Skenazy
  Lenore Skenazy writes a nationally syndicated column that appears in more than 100 papers through the Creators Syndicate. Her work offers commentary on everything from politics to family life to popular culture phenomena, and include My Dollar Store Addiction and Don't Call Me From Your Car Just...
  
  
• David Sirota
  David Sirota
  David J. Sirota is a progressive Denver-based American political figure, radio show host and commentator. He is an author, book reviewer, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, a Democratic political strategist, political operative, Democratic spokesperson, and blogger...
  
  
• Thomas Sowell
  Thomas Sowell
  Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective...
  
  
• John Stossel
  John Stossel
  John F. Stossel is an American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist. In October 2009 Stossel left his long time home on ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel, both owned and operated by News Corp...
  
  
• Jacob Sullum
  Jacob Sullum
  Jacob Z. Sullum is a syndicated newspaper columnist with Creators Syndicate and a Senior Editor at Reason magazine. In 2004, he received a Thomas S. Szasz Award...
  
  
• Matt Towery
• Brian Till
• Emmett Tyrrell
  Emmett Tyrrell
  Robert Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is an American conservative magazine editor, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. He writes under the byline R...
  
  
• Walter E. Williams
  Walter E. Williams
  Walter E. Williams, is an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.- Early life and education :Williams family during childhood...
  
  

Current

• Agnes
  Agnes (comic strip)
  Agnes is an American syndicated comic strip written and drawn by Tony Cochran. It was first syndicated in 1999. It is currently syndicated by Creators Syndicate.-Overview:...
  
  
• Andy Capp
  Andy Capp
  Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe , seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single-panel cartoon, Smyth later expanded it to four panels....
  
  
• Archie
  Archie Comics
  Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...
  
  
• Ask Shagg
  Ask Shagg
  Ask Shagg is a syndicated daily comic strip drawn by cartoonist Peter Guren since 1980. It is currently distributed by Creators Syndicate; it had been distributed by United Feature Syndicate from 1980 until 1995. The strip has run in dozens of newspapers including the Boston Globe, Columbus...
  
  
• Ballard Street
  Ballard Street
  Ballard Street is a comic panel created by Jerry Van Amerongen and distributed by Creators Syndicate that has run since 1991.-About the Comic:...
  
  
• B.C.
• The Barn
• Cafe Con Leche
  Charlos Gary
  Charlos Gary is an African-American cartoonist and comic strip author, best known for creating a series entitled Working It Out, a strip that deals with office politics in a format similar to Dilbert.- Biography :...
  
  
• Chuckle Bros.
• Daddy's Home
  Daddy's Home (comic strip)
  Daddy's Home is a daily comic strip which premiered in American newspapers on March 10, 2008, and is syndicated by Creators Syndicate. The strip can currently be seen in large market newspapers such as the Orange County Register and The Washington Post and is slowly being rolled out across the...
  
  
• Diamond Lil
• Doodles
  Doodles (comic)
  Doodles is a children's activity comic strip drawn by Steve Sack and Craig MacIntosh. Originally syndicated in 1985 as "Professor Doodles' Just For Kids Corner", the strip was renamed "Doodles" in 1998. The comic is distributed by Creators Syndicate....
  
  
• Dog Eat Doug
  Dog eat Doug
  Dog eat Doug is a comic strip written and illustrated by Brian Anderson. It began in 2004 as a webcomic that ran on the cartoonist's homepage and , and was later picked up for newspaper syndication through Creators Syndicate...
  
  
• The Dogs of C-Kennel
• Flo & Friends
  Flo & Friends
  Flo & Friends is an American syndicated daily comic strip drawn by Jenny Campbell and distributed by Creators Syndicate. The comic was originally created by John Gibel in 2002....
  
  
• Flare
  Flare (comics)
  Flare is a superhero whose adventures are published by Heroic Publishing. The character was originally created by Stacy Thain for a superhero role-playing game called Champions. She appeared in the six-issue run of the Champions comic published by Eclipse Comics, then in several of her own books...
  
  
• Flight Deck
  Peter Waldner
  Peter Waldner is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Flight Deck.-External links:**http://www.creators.com/comics/flight-deck-about.html*http://www.wishrockstudio.com/index.html...
  
  
• For Heaven's Sake
  For Heaven's Sake (comic strip)
  For Heaven's Sake is a comic strip by Mike Morgan with a religious humor theme. It is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.-External links:* at Creators Syndicate*...
  
  
• Free Range
• Girls & Sports
  Girls & Sports
  Girls & Sports is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein. It was initially created in 1997 and was published in various college newspapers until 2004 when Borus and Feinstein began self-syndicating the strip...
  
  
• Heathcliff
  Heathcliff (comic strip)
  Heathcliff is a comic strip created by George Gately in 1973 featuring the title character, a wisecracking cat. Now written and drawn by Gately's nephew, Peter Gallagher, it is distributed to over 1,000 newspapers by Creators Syndicate, who took over the comic from McNaught Syndicate in 1988.The...
  
  
• Herb and Jamaal
  Herb and Jamaal
  Herb and Jamaal is a comic strip by Stephen Bentley syndicated by Creators Syndicate. It is published daily and centers on the eponymous friends, inspired by the illustrator's experience at a high school reunion.-External links:*...
  
  
• Liberty Meadows
  Liberty Meadows
  Liberty Meadows is a comic strip and comic book created, written and illustrated by Frank Cho. It relates the comedic activities of the staff and denizens of the titular animal sanctuary/rehabilitation clinic.-Publication history:...
  
  
• The Meaning of Lila
  The Meaning of Lila
  The Meaning of Lila is a comic strip written by John Forgetta and L. A. Rose. It is syndicated by Creators Syndicate. The strip centers around Lila, her cubicle partner and close friend Boyd, and their friend and co-worker Drew. The central theme of the comic is about Lila trying to find the...
  
  
• Momma
  Momma
  Momma is an English language comic strip by Mell Lazarus which debuted on October 26, 1970. Initially distributed by the Publishers-Hall Syndicate, it is currently handled by Creators Syndicate and published in more than 400 newspapers worldwide....
  
  
• Nest Heads
• Natural Selection
• One Big Happy
  One Big Happy
  One Big Happy is a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Rick Detorie, detailing the daily adventures of a six-year-old girl named Ruthie. The strip also features her eight-year-old brother Joe, their parents Frank and Ellen, and their grandparents Nick and Rose, who live next door...
  
  
• On A Claire Day
  On a Claire Day
  On a Claire Day is an internationally syndicated comic strip created by Henry Beckett and Carla Ventresca and launched in 2006.It is based around the life of fictional character Claire Bennett, an insecure and naive young woman, who has left her parents' home to live on her own...
  
  
• The Other Coast
  The Other Coast
  The Other Coast is a comic strip, drawn by Adrian Raeside. It has been syndicated by the Creator's Syndicate since 2001. It is syndicated to more than 150 newspapers worldwide...
  
  
• Rubes
  Rubes
  Rubes is a syndicated newspaper single panel cartoon created by Leigh Rubin in 1984.Leigh Rubin began making and distributing his own greeting cards in 1979 through his company Rubes. The cartoon Rubes began appearing in newspapers in 1984 and is since 1989 syndicated by Creators Syndicate to over...
  
  
• Rugrats
  Rugrats
  Rugrats is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series premiered on August 11, 1991, and aired its last episode on June 8, 2004....
  
  
• Scary Gary
• Speed Bump
  Speed bump
  A speed bump is a speed-reducing feature of road design to slow traffic or reduce through traffic, via...
  
  
• State of the Union
• Strange Brew
• Thin Lines
  Randy Glasbergen
  Randy Glasbergen is an American cartoonist and humorous illustrator best known for the daily comic The Better Half.-Background:Randy Glasbergen began his professional cartooning career at the ripe old age of 15...
  
  
• Wee Pals
  Wee Pals
  Wee Pals is a syndicated comic strip about a diverse group of children, created and produced by Morrie Turner.-Background:Wee Pals first appeared on February 15, 1965. Syndicated by the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate, the strip originally appeared in only 5 daily newspapers, as many...
  
  
• Winnie the Pooh
  Winnie the Pooh (comic strip)
  Winnie the Pooh is a comic strip based on the characters created by A.A. Milne & E.H. Shepard which ran from June 19, 1978 until April 2, 1988....
  
  
• The Wizard of Id
  The Wizard of Id
  The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". From time to time, the king refers to his subjects as "Idiots"...
  
  
• Working It Out
  Charlos Gary
  Charlos Gary is an African-American cartoonist and comic strip author, best known for creating a series entitled Working It Out, a strip that deals with office politics in a format similar to Dilbert.- Biography :...
  
  

Discontinued

• Baby Blues (moved to King Features Syndicate
  King Features Syndicate
  King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...
  
  )
• Poor Arnold's Almanac
  Poor Arnold's Almanac
  Poor Arnold's Alamanac was a newspaper comic strip by Arnold Roth. Each installment covered a single subject, with Roth devising gags on such topics as baseball, dogs, commuting, elephants, ice cream, smoking and the telephone....
  
  
• The Quigmans (last published January 29, 2011)
• Sherman's Lagoon
  Sherman's Lagoon
  Sherman's Lagoon is a comic strip by Jim Toomey that is syndicated daily in over 150 newspapers worldwide. It first appeared in the Escondido Times-Advocate on May 13, 1991....
  
  (moved to King Features Syndicate
  King Features Syndicate
  King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...
  
  )

Editorial cartoonists

• Chuck Asay
  Chuck Asay
  Charles R. "Chuck" Asay is a conservative political cartoonist. He was an editorial cartoonist for the Colorado Springs Gazette until his retirement on March 28, 2007. Previously, he drew for the Taos News, Colorado Springs Sun, and briefly at the Denver Post...
  
  
• Bruce Beattie
• Steve Benson
• Chip Bok
  Chip Bok
  Chip Bok is an American editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1995 and 1999.-External links:*...
  
  
• Steve Breen
  Steve Breen
  Stephen Paul Breen is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009....
  
  
• Chris Britt
  Chris Britt
  Chris Britt is an editorial cartoonist for the State Journal-Register of Springfield, Illinois, United States. Since 1991 the Copley News Service has distributed his cartoons....
  
  
• John Deering
  John Deering
  John W. Deering was the subject of an experiment to observe what would happen to the human heart during death by gunshot. Deering, an American facing execution by the state of Utah for the May 1938 murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr., volunteered to have himself hooked up to an electrocardiogram...
  
  
• Bob Gorrell
  Bob Gorrell
  Bob Gorrell is an American editorial cartoonist. His work appears in numerous newspapers, via syndication. His work is also available online. Gorrell has won several awards for his editorial cartoons.-External Links:*...
  
  
• Clay Jones
  Clay Jones
  Clay Jones, , was a horticulturist and broadcaster best known as the Chairman of the BBC Radio 4 programme Gardener's Question Time....
  
  
• Steve Kelley
  Steve Kelley (cartoonist)
  Steve Kelley is a syndicated political cartoonist. Born in Virginia, he was an honors graduate of Dartmouth College in 1981, where he drew cartoons for both the Daily Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Review...
  
  
• Mike Luckovich
  Mike Luckovich
  Michael Edward Luckovich is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989...
  
  
• Gary Markstein
• Mossprints
• Michael Ramirez
  Michael Ramirez
  Michael Patrick Ramirez is a two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons typically present conservative viewpoints....
  
  
• Marshall Ramsey
• Steve Sack
  Steve Sack
  Steve Sack is an American cartoonist who, along with Craig Macintosh, draws the cartoon activity panel Doodles. Sack is also an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he started in 1981...
  
  
• John Sherffius
• Scott Stantis
  Scott Stantis
  Scott Brian Stantis is an American editorial cartoonist.-Career:Scott is currently the Editorial Cartoonist for The Chicago Tribune and USA Today. He began his career with The Chicago Tribune on September 1, 2009 following the paper's nine-year search to replace Jeff MacNelly, who died in June 2000...
  
  
• Paul Szep
  Paul Szep
  Paul Michael Szep is a celebrated political cartoonist. He was the chief editorial cartoonist at the Boston Globe from 1967–2001 and has been syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for Editorial Cartooning in 1974 and 1977. Szep also won the prestigious...
  
  
• Mike Thompson
  Mike Thompson
  Michael C. Thompson , is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1999. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties as well as parts of Yolo and Sonoma Counties....
  
  
• Gary Varvel
  Gary Varvel
  Gary Varvel is a political cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star. Gary Varvel has been the editorial cartoonist for The Star since 1994. Previously he was the chief artist for The Indianapolis News for 16 years. His works are syndicated with Gannett....
  
  

External links

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