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Comics Kingdom launches today
King Features officially launches its Comics Kingdom product today. Comics Kingdom is a new web application that newspapers can embed on their site and provides their readers with access to King Feature’s portfolio of 60+ strips. It also allows the newspapers to sell advertising to accompany the comic page. The premise behind this new type [...]
Posted on: Nov 18, 2008, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Comments: 17 Comments
King Features launches comic web application
King Features has released a new embed-able comic application called Comics Kingdom that allows any newspaper to deploy a comic page easily. The application allows users to view a 30 day archive of King’s comics, ability to rate and comment on a comic, zoom in for a larger view, and to add the page to [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2008, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Web Sites, Comments: 5 Comments
King Features commits $100k to scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy
King Features Syndicate has committed $100,000 to establish an endowed scholarship fund in honor of Jay Kennedy, who served as King Features Syndicate Editor in Chief from 1997 until his untimely death earlier this year.
The fund will be administered through the National Cartoonist Society Foundation, the non-profit art of the NCS dedicated to advancing [...]
Posted on: Nov 7, 2007, Section: King Features, Syndicates, Comments: 3 Comments
Brendan Burford answers questions about his new role at King Features
Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon has posted an interview with Brendan Burford, King Feature’s new comics editor. At age 28, Brendan picks up where Jay Kennedy left off after Jay’s untimely death.
TOM SPURGEON: When your promotion was announced, I think it was [King Features President] Rocky Shepard who in one of the articles indicated that you [...]
Posted on: May 1, 2007, Section: Interviews, King Features, Comments: 0 Comments
Brendan Burford named King Feature’s comics editor
E&P is reporting that Brendan Burford has been named King Feature Syndicate’s comics editor.
“Jay had planned for the inevitability of succession one day when he hired Brendan,” King President T.R. “Rocky” Shepard III said in a statement. “Brendan has worked side by side with Jay for the last seven years, and brings to his [...]
Posted on: Apr 24, 2007, Section: King Features, Comments: 1 Comment
King Feature Editor-in-Chief Jay Kennedy perishes in drowning accident (updated)
NCS president Rick Stomoski has informed me that King Feature Syndicate Editor-in-Chief Jay Kennedy has passed away yesterday in a drowning accident while vacationing in Costa Rica. Not many details have emerged, but I will be watching for updates and post them here as the become available.
I wish to express my condolences to the King [...]
Posted on: Mar 16, 2007, Section: King Features, Obituary, Comments: 55 Comments
Newspaper editor has beef with King Features’s online DailyINK
According to Editor & Publisher, Dean Miller, executive editor of The Post Register in Idaho Falls, sent a letter to King Features Syndicate saying the existence of King’s DailyINK online service may mean King “places little value on syndication fees.” And he wondered if the syndicate should start paying newspapers to run comics.
Posted on: Sep 25, 2006, Section: Controversies, Daily Cartoonist, King Features, Newspaper industry, Syndicates, Technology, Comments: 12 Comments
King Features launches Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop
King Features has launched it’s third feature of 2006 (Retail and Pajama Diaries being the first two). The new feature is a Sunday only called Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop by Kevin Frank. Heaven’s love focuses on the the characters (Wilson, Cassidy, and Dag) who run a charitable thrift shop which supports outreaches including a soup-kitchen and homeless shelter.
Posted on: Aug 7, 2006, Section: Comic strips, King Features, New Launches, Comments: 0 Comments
Warner Home Video gets rights to classic Popeye library
From a story out of Reuters comes news that Warner Home Video has negotiated a deal with Hearst Entertainment and King Features for worldwide distribution rights to all of Popeye’s theatrical shorts and television cartoons…. Warner also has licensed the exclusive rights to 220 Popeye made-for-TV animated shorts produced from 1960-62, 65 episodes of “The Continuing Adventures of Popeye,” produced from 1978-81 (and consisting of 161 animated shorts) and 26 “Popeye & Son” shorts produced in 1987.The Popeye theatrical slate includes 120 black-and-white shorts (106 of them produced by Fleischer Studios, the other 14 by Famous Studios) and 111 Technicolor cartoons (three produced by Fleischer Studios and 108 produced by Famous Studios).Warner will now have to begin preservation and restoration.
Posted on: Jun 10, 2006, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Television, Comments: 0 Comments
DailyINK adds five more vintage comics
King Feature’s DailyINK has added five more comics to their list of features subscribers can subscribers to. The new features are: Beetle Bailey, Bringing up Father, Buz Sawyer, Flash Gordon, and Rip Kirby.
Posted on: Jun 10, 2006, Section: Comic history, Comic strips, King Features, Comments: 6 Comments
Patrick McDonnell raises $12k for Tiger Reserve
Patrick McDonnell has helped raise $12,000 for the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Ramnagar, India, according to Editor and Publisher.Visitors to the Muttscomics.com store donated $2,000 (in $1 increments), which was matched by McDonnell. That $4,000 total was then matched twice by The Corbett Foundation and the World Wildlife Foundation of India.
Posted on: May 4, 2006, Section: Comic strips, King Features, Comments: 0 Comments
Two new features launch this week
Two more features have been launched.
“On a Claire Day” was launched Monday. This new feature is by Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett and is distributed through Creators. I’ve not seen a press release or much in the way of a description of the feature. You can see samples of the strip on their web [...]
Posted on: Apr 6, 2006, Section: Comic strips, Creators, King Features, Comments: 15 Comments
