19 Facts About King Features

King Features Syndicate, Inc is a content distribution, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles, and games to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.

King Features Syndicate produces intellectual properties, develops new content and franchises, like Cuphead, which it produced with Netflix, and licenses its classic characters and properties.

King Features Syndicate is a unit of Hearst Holdings, Inc, which combines the Hearst Corporation's cable-network partnerships, television programming and distribution activities, and syndication companies.

Production escalated in 1916 with King Features buying and selling its own staff-created feature material.

In November 2015, King Features released a book, entitled “King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate” to commemorate its 100th anniversary.

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King Features was a reporter and war correspondent for the Atlanta Journal for four years, moving to the New-York Tribune in 1917 and then returning to the Atlanta Journal as correspondent in France and Germany.

King Features joined King Features in 1920, became a writer and editor of the magazine section in 1925, advancing to executive editor and general manager.

In 1973, Tom Pritchard joined King Features, and became executive editor in 1990, overseeing daily editorial operations and the development of political cartoons, syndicated columns, and editorial services for King Features and North America Syndicate.

King Features died of a heart attack in December 1992 at his home in Norwalk.

King Features had previously edited Dell Publishing's cartoon magazines and Dell's paperback cartoon collections.

King Features is the first female-assigned and first genderqueer person to oversee comics editorial at King Features.

In March 2018, to mark International Women's Day, many King Features cartoonists included messages about female empowerment and other topics that resonated with them.

In September 2020, King Features relaunched comic strip Mark Trail, originally launched in 1946, with cartoonist Jules Rivera, author of comic strip Love, Joolz, at the helm.

Many King Features characters were adapted to animation, both theatrical and television cartoons.

In 1967, King Features made an effort to publish comic books of its own by establishing King Comics.

In 1967, Al Brodax, then the president of King Features, pitched The Beatles manager Brian Epstein on turning their hit song "Yellow Submarine" into an animated movie.

King Features was then receiving more than 6,000 strip submissions each year, yet it accepted only two or three annually.

In November 2008, King Features introduced Comics Kingdom, a digital platform that newspapers can embed on their sites.

In January 2019, to commemorate Popeye's 90th birthday, multiple King Features cartoonists drew their own versions of the comic and published those strips on Comics Kingdom.