History
Creators Syndicate originated on February 15, 1987 after the December 24, 1986 announced sale of the Irvine, California based News America Syndicate to King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation. The pending sale of News America Syndicate, which was first reported by Advertising Age in October 1986, prompted 36-year-old News America Syndicate (NAS) president Richard S. Newcombe to leave NAS in January 1987 and use financial backing from London-based publisher Robert Maxwell to form Creators Syndicate after the February 14th close of the NAS' sale. Ann Landers, then the world's best read and most widely syndicated newspaper columnist, also announced that she was leaving NAS to join the newly formed Creators Syndicate. Within a month, Creators Syndicate acquired the syndication rights to the daily American comic strip B.C., and a few months after that acquired the syndication rights to the cartoon works of Herblock, an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on national domestic and foreign policy from a liberal perspective. Creators Syndicate's primary enticement to each of these artists was a promise of a shorter contract -- well less than the standard industry 20 year period -- and retention of copyright ownership over their work.
In May 2008, Creators Syndicate purchased Copley News Service, a 1955 founded Illinois-based wire service that distributes news, political cartoons, and opinion columns.
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