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The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and
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newspaper
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service based in the United States and established in 1902. The oldest syndicate still in operation, the NEA was originally a secondary news service to the
Scripps Howard News Service The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is h ...
; it later evolved into a general syndicate best known for syndicating the
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''
Alley Oop ''Alley Oop'' is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters an ...
'', ''
Our Boarding House ''Our Boarding House'' is an American Panel (comics), single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it d ...
'', '' Freckles and His Friends'', ''
The Born Loser ''The Born Loser'' is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Sansoms won ...
'', '' Frank and Ernest'', and ''
Captain Easy '' Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune '' is an American action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933. The strip ran for more than five decades until it ...
'' / ''
Wash Tubbs ''Wash Tubbs'' is an American daily comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1949, when it merged into Crane's related Sunday page, ''Captain Easy''. Crane left both strips in 1943 to begin ''Buz Sawyer'', but a series of ...
''; in addition to an annual Christmas comic strip. Along with
United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...
, the NEA was part of
United Media United Media was a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, that operated from 1978 to 2011. It syndicated 150 comics and editorial columns worldwide. It ...
from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of
Andrews McMeel Syndication Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other ...
. The NEA once selected college
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teams, and presented awards in professional
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and professional BA basketball.


Corporate history

On June 2, 1902, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, based in
Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
, started as a news report service for different Scripps-owned newspapers. It started selling content to non-Scripps owned newspapers in 1907, and by 1909, it became a more general syndicate, offering comics, pictures and features as well. NEA moved headquarters from Cleveland to Chicago in 1915, with an office in San Francisco. NEA rapidly grew and delivered content to 400 newspapers in 1920. At that time, it had some 100 features available. From 1918 to 1928,
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Billy Evans William George Evans (February 10, 1884 – January 23, 1956), nicknamed "The Boy Umpire", was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1906 to 1927. He became, at age 22, the youngest umpire in majo ...
served as NEA's sports editor and produced a syndicated sports column titled ''Billy Evans Says''. His staff featured well-known sportswriters Jimmy Powers and Joe Williams. Alfred O. Andersson was general manager of the NEA from 1919 to 1921. By 1930, NEA had about 700 client newspapers. In 1934 and 1935,
Mary Margaret McBride Mary Margaret McBride (November 16, 1899 – April 7, 1976) was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 years. In the 1940s the daily audience for her housewife-oriented program numbered from si ...
was the
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editor for the NEA. Boyd Lewis became the executive editor of the NEA service in 1945; he was president in 1968. Writer
Russell R. Winterbotham Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books. He also wrote crime stories and one sci ...
was fiction editor of the NEA throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Sports cartoonist and writer
Murray Olderman Murray Olderman (March 27, 1922 – June 10, 2020) was an American sports cartoonist and writer. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above the Hall of F ...
had a long association with NEA. Firstly, his columns and cartoons were syndicated by the agency.Horgan, Richard
"SO WHAT DO YOU DO, MURRAY OLDERMAN, ICONIC SPORTS JOURNALIST AND CARTOONIST?,"
''Media Bistro'' (May 21, 2014).
He officially joined the company in 1952; becoming its sports editor in 1964; executive editor in 1968; and a contributing editor in 1971. He was the founder of the Jim Thorpe Trophy, for the National Football League's Most Valuable Player, and distributed by the NEA. He also founded the NEA All-Pro team in 1954, which ran through 1992. Although Olderman "retired" in 1987, he was active until the news service was overtaken by a larger corporation. In 1968, the NEA was offering about 75 features to more than 750 client newspapers.Maley, Don. "Super Roads to Riches are Paved with Comics," ''Editor & Publisher'' (Nov. 30, 1968)
Archived at ''Stripper's Guide''
Accessed Nov. 12, 2018.
In the 1970s, Ira Berkow was sports editor for the NEA. In May 1978 the Scripps Company merged its two syndication arms, NEA and
United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...
(established by Scripps in 1919), to form United Media Enterprises. On February 24, 2011, the Scripps Company struck a distribution deal with Universal Uclick (now known as
Andrews McMeel Syndication Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other ...
) for syndication of United Media's 150 comic strip and news features, which became effective on June 1 of that year. While United Media effectively ceased to exist, Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights.


Comic strips

The NEA's earliest successful comic strip was A.D. Condo & J. W. Raper's '' The Outbursts of Everett True'' (launched in 1905). Early on, Charles N. Landon (1878–1937) joined NEA as art director. Founder of the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning, a mail-order correspondence course that trained a generation of cartoonists, Landon personally hired some graduates to draw features at the syndicate. Counted among these successful students were
Roy Crane Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establi ...
, Merrill Blosser, V. T. Hamlin, Bill Holman,
Chic Young Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip ''Blondie (comic strip), Blondie''. His 1919 ''William McKinley High School Yearbook'' cites his nickname as Chicken, source of hi ...
, and
Ethel Hays Ethel Hays (March 13, 1892 – March 19, 1989) was an American syndicated cartoonist specializing in flapper-themed comic strips in the 1920s and 1930s. She drew in Art Deco style. In the later part of her career, during the 1940s and 1950s, sh ...
. (In the case of Hays, Landon taught her by mail and then brought her to NEA to draw syndicated features.) Cartoonist
Gene Ahern Eugene Leslie Ahern (September 16, 1895 – March 6, 1960) was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel '' Our Boarding House''. Many of Ahern's comic strips took ...
moved to Cleveland in 1914 to work on staff for the NEA as a sportswriter and artist, initially inking comic drawings for $18 a week."Hoople v. Puffle"
''Time'' (May 11, 1936).
He worked on such strips as ''Dream Dope'', ''Fathead Fritz'', ''Sporty Sid and his Pals'', ''Taking Her to the Ball Game'', and ''Ain't Nature Wonderful''. In 1915, he introduced ''Squirrel Food'', later known as ''Otto Auto'' and then ''Balmy Benny'' before returning to its original title.Holtz, Allan

''Stripper's Guide'' (January 22, 2009).
Holtz, Allan

''Stripper's Guide'' (July 17, 2008).
In May 1915, Landon hired Merrill Blosser to work at NEA. Blosser was 23 when he began in the NEA art department, initially doing cartoons based on news events and then drawing five daily panels. One of these, titled ''Freckles'', began as a one-column daily gag panel on August 16, expanding into a full comic strip on September 20 when it was retitled '' Freckles and His Friends''. One by one, each of the other panels were dropped. In July 1916, Blosser started another strip, ''Miniature Movies'', which evolved into ''Chestnut Charlie'', continuing until early in 1918 when Blosser concentrated exclusively on ''Freckles and His Friends''.''The Albertan'', October 3, 1945.
/ref> Cartoonist
Edgar Martin Edgar Everett Martin (July 6, 1898 – August 31, 1960), known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, ''Boots and Her Buddies'', running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 6 ...
joined the NEA in 1921 as a cartoonist.University of Missouri: MU Libraries Special Collections
Retrieved October 18, 2015
Reynolds, Moira Davidson. ''Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980''. McFarland, 2003.
/ref> While working in NEA's art department, Martin experimented with several strips: ''Efficiency Ed'', ''Fables of 1921'', ''Taken from Life'', and ''Girls''. In 1924, NEA was looking for a "girl strip," and several artists who had previously submitted strips were asked to resubmit them. Martin's sample was unsigned. When an editor examined Martin's strip and asked, "How soon can we get this artist?", the art director responded, "In one minute. He works here." Thus, ''Girls'' became ''
Boots and Her Buddies ''Boots and Her Buddies'' was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title ''Boots''. The character of Boots ...
'' on February 18, 1924, although some newspapers continued to use the first title. NEA became a successful distributor of newspaper comics in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1921 Gene Ahern introduced the Nut Brothers, Ches and Wal, in the new strip ''Crazy Quilt''. That same year, NEA General Manager Frank Rostock suggested to Ahern that he use a boarding house for a setting. ''
Our Boarding House ''Our Boarding House'' is an American Panel (comics), single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it d ...
'' began September 16, 1921, scoring a huge success with readers after the January 1922 arrival of the fustian Major Hoople. ''The Nut Bros: Ches and Wal'' ran as a topper strip above ''Our Boarding House''. Other long-running NEA strips that launched during the 1920s included Martin's ''
Boots and Her Buddies ''Boots and Her Buddies'' was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title ''Boots''. The character of Boots ...
'',
Roy Crane Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establi ...
's ''
Wash Tubbs ''Wash Tubbs'' is an American daily comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1949, when it merged into Crane's related Sunday page, ''Captain Easy''. Crane left both strips in 1943 to begin ''Buz Sawyer'', but a series of ...
'',
Ethel Hays Ethel Hays (March 13, 1892 – March 19, 1989) was an American syndicated cartoonist specializing in flapper-themed comic strips in the 1920s and 1930s. She drew in Art Deco style. In the later part of her career, during the 1940s and 1950s, sh ...
' '' Flapper Fanny Says'', and J. R. Williams' ''
Out Our Way ''Out Our Way'' was an American single-panel comic strip series by Canadian-American comic strip artist J. R. Williams. Distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and ...
''. Popular NEA strips that originated in the 1930s include V. T. Hamlin's ''
Alley Oop ''Alley Oop'' is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters an ...
'', Crane's ''
Captain Easy '' Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune '' is an American action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933. The strip ran for more than five decades until it ...
'' , and
Stephen Slesinger Stephen Slesinger (December 25, 1901 – December 17, 1953) was an American radio, television and film producer, creator of comic strip characters and the father of the licensing industry. From 1923 to 1953, he created, produced, published, develo ...
&
Fred Harman Fred Charles Harman II (February 9, 1902 - January 2, 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for his popular ''Red Ryder'' comic strip, which he drew for 25 years, reaching 40 million readers through 750 newspapers. Harman sometimes used th ...
's ''
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''.
Bela Zaboly Bela P. Zaboly (May 1910 – April 1985), a.k.a. Bill Zaboly, was an American cartoonist best known for his work on ''Thimble Theatre'' with ''Popeye''. Zaboly's illustrated signature used the initials BZ with the "B" formed by the wings of a bee ...
started at NEA as an office boy and eventually was a staff cartoonist. During the early 1930s he created the Sunday strip ''Otto Honk'' about moon-faced, dim-bulb Otto, who was variously employed as a private eye, movie stunt man and football player. ''Otto Honk'' lasted until 1936. Zaboly was an assistant to Roy Crane on ''Wash Tubbs''.Zaboly entry
Lambiek's ''Comiclopedia''. Accessed Dec. 13, 2018.
Cartoonist
Herb Block Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretchi ...
("Herblock") moved to Cleveland in 1933 to become a staff cartoonist for the NEA, which distributed his cartoons nationally. While there, he won his first
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in 1942 for " British Plane".
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's ongoing
comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
series ''
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'' (launched 1936) utilized a number of NEA strips to start out, including ''Alley Oop'' and ''Captain Easy''.Goulart, Ron. "The Funnies: II" ''Comic Book Encyclopedia'', p. 163 By 1936 Gene Ahern was making an annual $35,000 at NEA, and
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offered to double that figure. Ahern left NEA in March 1936 for King Features, where he created ''
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''. Similarly, in 1943
Roy Crane Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establi ...
exited the NEA (abandoning his strips ''
Captain Easy '' Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune '' is an American action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933. The strip ran for more than five decades until it ...
'' and ''
Wash Tubbs ''Wash Tubbs'' is an American daily comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1949, when it merged into Crane's related Sunday page, ''Captain Easy''. Crane left both strips in 1943 to begin ''Buz Sawyer'', but a series of ...
'') for King Features to begin ''
Buz Sawyer ''Buz Sawyer'' is a comic strip created by Roy Crane.Ron Goulart, ''The Funnies : 100 Years of American Comic Strips''. Holbrook, Mass. : Adams Pub, 1995. (pp. 149-50) Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it had a run from November 1, 1943 to ...
'', a strip he would own outright. NEA's ''
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'' strip launched in 1942 and was syndicated for 51 years. Al Vermeer's '' Priscilla's Pop'' was a long-running strip that launched in 1946. Dick Cavalli's '' Winthrop'' (originally called ''Morty Meekle'') debuted in 1955 and lasted 39 years. Three strips that debuted in the 1960s and 1970s are still in syndication via the NEA: ''
The Born Loser ''The Born Loser'' is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Sansoms won ...
'' (launched 1965), '' Frank and Ernest'' (launched 1972), and Kevin Fagan's ''
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'', which debuted in 1979. The Newspaper Enterprise Association brand has persisted both under the United Media umbrella and now Universal Uclick/
Andrews McMeel Syndication Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other ...
.


Sports All-America team selections and awards


All-America team selections

From 1924 to 1996, the NEA was the selector of college football All-America teams. It was a granting institution in the selection of the
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teams in 1938 and from 1953 to 1963.


NFL awards

Beginning in 1955, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, under the guidance of
Murray Olderman Murray Olderman (March 27, 1922 – June 10, 2020) was an American sports cartoonist and writer. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above the Hall of F ...
, poll NFL players annually for an
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team. In addition, the NEA awarded a Rookie of the Year, a
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(1955–2008), and a Defensive Player of the Year (George Halas Trophy; 1966–1998). All were published in the ''NFL Record and Fact Book'' alongside the
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,
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, and the
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All-Pro teams and awards. The NEA last announced an All-Pro team in 1992, ending a 38-year tradition of the "player's All-Pro Team". (The NEA list's successor, the '' Sporting News'' All-Pro team, currently polls players along with coaches and managers for its teams.) From the early 1980s the NEA All-Pro team was released in the ''
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'' which was an NEA publication. The NFL MVP award was called the Jim Thorpe Trophy and began in 1955. The Defensive Player of the Year was named after Chicago Bears founder George S. Halas and its inception was 1966, the Rookie of the Year award was named after NFL commissioner Bert Bell and began in 1964. In the early 1960s the NEA began awarding the Third Down Trophy that symbolized each team's MVP. That began in the American Football League and included the NFL after the 1970 AFL-NFL merger and ran through 1979. The Jim Thorpe Trophy was discontinued following Kurt Warner's win in 2008. Olderman, the driving force behind the Players' All-Pro teams and awards, was also a fine artist and cartoonist. When the NEA news service released its stories on the annual NFL awards they were accompanied by artwork provided by Olderman to illustrate the stories.


Syndicated columns

* ''Andrews McMeel Almanac'' — daily feature offering notable historical events, interesting birthdays, phases of the moon and intriguing quotes, facts and statistics *
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* ''Ask Dick Kleiner'' by
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(1975–2001) * ''Ask the Doctors'' by Eve Glazier, M.D., Elizabeth Ko, M.D, and Robert Ashley, M.D. * ''Astro-Graph'' by Eugenia Last — astrology * ''Billy Evans Says'' by
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(1918–1928) * ''Celebrity Cipher'' by Luis Campos — decoding famous quotes * ''Do Just One Thing'' by Danny Seo — eco-friendly ways to save money and the planet *
Georgie Anne Geyer Georgie Anne Geyer (April 2, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American journalist who covered the world as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and then became a syndicated columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focus ...
* Erskine Johnson *
Morton Kondracke Morton Matt Kondracke (; born April 28, 1939) is an American political commentator and journalist. He became well known due to a long stint as a panelist on ''The McLaughlin Group''. Kondracke worked for several major publications, serving for twen ...
* Donald Lambro *
Kathryn Jean Lopez Kathryn Jean Lopez (born March 22, 1976) is an American conservative columnist who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate. She is also the former editor and currently an editor-at-large of ''National Review Online''. Her nicknam ...
*
Gene Lyons Gene Lyons is an American political columnist who has defended former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Writing He and Joe Conason co-authored '' The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton'', a documentary ...
*
Mary Margaret McBride Mary Margaret McBride (November 16, 1899 – April 7, 1976) was an American radio interview host and writer. Her popular radio shows spanned more than 40 years. In the 1940s the daily audience for her housewife-oriented program numbered from si ...
* ''NEA Bridge'' by Phillip Alder — on
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* ''NEA Crossword Puzzle'' by Dan Stark * ''On Religion'' by Terry Mattingly *
Cokie Roberts Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019) was an American journalist and author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio, PBS ...
and
Steven V. Roberts Steven V. Roberts (born February 11, 1943) is an American journalist, writer, and political commentator. Life and career Roberts was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and graduated from Bayonne High School.Rahman, Sarah"Author Steven V. Roberts pays a ...
* ''Sense & Sensitivity'' by
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* David Shribman * ''Sudoku Daily'' * ''TasteFood'' by Lynda Balslev * ''The Village Idiot'' by Jim Mullen * Joe Williams on sports (1938–1940s) *
Byron York Byron York (born December 5, 1955) is an American conservative correspondent, pundit, columnist, and author. Education York holds a B.A. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. Career ...


Newspaper Enterprises Association strips and cartoons


NEA Christmas strip

From 1936 to 2010, NEA produced an annual Christmas-themed daily comic strip for its subscribing newspapers as a holiday bonus. They typically ran for three to four weeks before Christmas, with the concluding installment on December 25 or a nearby date. Strip historian
Allan Holtz Allan Holtz () is a comic strip historian who researches and writes about newspaper comics for his Stripper's Guide blog, launched in 2005. His research encompasses some 7,000 American comic strips and newspaper panels. In addition to his contribu ...
notes that over the years these strips featured regular NEA characters, adapted classic Christmas stories, and original stories with single-appearance characters. Cartoonist Walt Scott was responsible for the Christmas strip for many years, starting in 1937, and then from 1950 to 1962. He illustrated the strip in 1937, 1949, 1960, and 1961; and wrote & drew it from 1950 to 1959 (with 1954 being a reprint) and in 1962. Hal Cochran wrote the strip from 1937 to 1943. The 1942 strip, "Santa's Victory Christmas," had a World War II-era theme of conserving raw materials to further the war effort, and was drawn by Superman ghost artist Leo Nowak. The 1967 entry, ''Bucky's Christmas Caper'', was written and drawn by famed comic book creator
Wally Wood Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as ''Weird Science (comic), Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy'', an ...
. Phil Pastoret wrote the Christmas strip in 1971, 1974, and 1977. The
Joe Kubert School The Kubert School, formerly the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and Joe Kubert School, is a private, for-profit technical school focused on cartooning and located in Dover, New Jersey. It teaches the principles of sequential art an ...
was responsible for the strip in the years 1982 to 1985.


NEA comic strips


Current NEA strips

* ''
Alley Oop ''Alley Oop'' is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters an ...
'' originally by V. T. Hamlin; currently by Jack and Carole Bender (launched 1932) * ''
Arlo and Janis ''Arlo and Janis'' is an American gag-a-day comic strip written and drawn by Jimmy Johnson (cartoonist), Jimmy Johnson. It is a leisurely paced domestic situation comedy. It was first published in newspapers on July 29, 1985. Cast The focus of ...
'' by Jimmy Johnson (launched July 29, 1985) * '' Big Nate'' by
Lincoln Peirce Lincoln Peirce (born October 23, 1963) (pronounced "purse") is an American cartoonist and animator, best known as the creator of the successful ''Big Nate'' comic strip and as the author/illustrator of a series of ''Big Nate'' novels for young ...
(launched January 7, 1991) * ''
The Born Loser ''The Born Loser'' is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Sansoms won ...
'', originally by Art Sansom (launched May 10, 1965) * '' Frank and Ernest'' originally by
Bob Thaves Robert Thaves (October 5, 1924 – August 1, 2006) was the creator of the comic strip '' Frank and Ernest'', which began in 1972. Early life Robert Lee Thaves was born on October 5, 1924, in Burt, Iowa, where his father, John, published local ne ...
(launched 1972) * '' The Grizzwells'' by
Bill Schorr Bill Schorr is an American cartoonist of syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips. Early life Schorr was born in New York City, and was raised in and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and California. Career Schorr has been an editoria ...
(launched 1987) * ''
Herman Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (disambiguation) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Min ...
'' by
Jim Unger Jim Unger (21 January 1937 – 26 May 2012) was a British-born Canadian cartoonist, best known for his syndicated comic strip ''Herman'' which ran for 18 years in 600 newspapers in 25 countries. Early life Unger was born in London, England, to L ...
(1975–1992 with
United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...
; now in reruns through NEA) * '' Moderately Confused'' by Jeff Stahler (launched 2003) * ''
Monty Monty is a masculine given name, often a short form of Montgomery, Montague and other similar names. It is also a surname. Notable people with the name or nickname include: First name Nickname * Bernard Montgomery (1887–1976), British Secon ...
'' by
Jim Meddick Jim Meddick (born August 1961) is an American cartoonist. While attending Washington University in St. Louis, he won the Chicago Tribune Student Cartoonist Contest for a strip named ''Paperback Writer''. After graduating, in 1983 he became a po ...
(launched 1985, as ''Robotman'' with
United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...
, now syndicated through NEA) * '' Shortcuts'' by Jeff Harris (launched 1999) The following strips were inherited from
Universal Uclick Andrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other ...
in 2011 and added to the NEA lineup: * ''
Cul de Sac A dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac (, from French for 'bag-bottom'), no through road or no exit road, is a street with only one inlet or outlet. The term "dead end" is understood in all varieties of English, but the official terminology ...
'' by Richard Thompson (2004–2012 with Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick; now in reruns through NEA) * '' Heart of the City'' by
Mark Tatulli Mark Tatulli is an American cartoonist, writer, animator and television producer, known for his strips '' Liō'' and '' Heart of the City'' and for his work on the cable reality television series ''Trading Spaces'' and ''A Wedding Story'', for whic ...
(launched November 23, 1998) * '' Reality Check'' by Dave Whamond (launched 1995) * '' Thatababy'' by Paul Trap (launched 2010)


Concluded NEA strips

* ''The Affairs of Jane'' by
Chic Young Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip ''Blondie (comic strip), Blondie''. His 1919 ''William McKinley High School Yearbook'' cites his nickname as Chicken, source of hi ...
(September 26, 1921 – March 18, 1922) * ''
Annibelle ''Annibelle'' was a comic strip created in 1929 by Dorothy Urfer. It was first published as a single panel cartoon on December 29, 1929, on the women's page of Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc.'s ''Everyweek'' section. The humorous strip re ...
'' by Dorothy Urfer (1929 – 1939) * ''
Ben Casey ''Ben Casey'' is an American medical drama series that aired on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaff ...
'' by
Neal Adams Neal Adams (June 15, 1941 – April 28, 2022) was an American comic book artist. He was the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates, and was a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Sup ...
and Jerry Capp (November 26, 1962 – July 31, 1966) * ''Benjy'' by Jim Berry (1974–1975) * ''The Bicker Family'' by Robert W. Satterfield (c. 1921–1922) * ''Biff Baker'' by Ernest "East" Lynn and Henry Schlensker (1941 – 1945) * ''Brenda Breeze'' by Rolfe Mason (1939 – 1962) * ''
Boots and Her Buddies ''Boots and Her Buddies'' was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title ''Boots''. The character of Boots ...
'' by
Edgar Martin Edgar Everett Martin (July 6, 1898 – August 31, 1960), known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, ''Boots and Her Buddies'', running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 6 ...
(1924 – 1968) * ''
Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and Voice acting, voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring role ...
'' (1942–1993) primarily by writers
Albert Stoffel Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert ...
(1947–1979) &
Carl Fallberg Carl Robert Fallberg (September 11, 1915 – May 9, 1996) was a writer/cartoonist for animated feature films and T.V. cartoons for Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera, and Warner Brothers. He also wrote comic books for Dell Comics, Western Publishi ...
(1950–1969) and artist Ralph Heimdahl (1947–1979) * ''
Captain Easy '' Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune '' is an American action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933. The strip ran for more than five decades until it ...
'' by
Roy Crane Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establi ...
Jeet Heer Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic, literary critic and journalist. He is a national affairs correspondent for ''The Nation'' magazine and a former staff writer at ''The New Republic''. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at Yor ...
, "Crane's Great Gamble", in Roy Crane, ''Buz Sawyer: 1, The War in the Pacific''. Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2011.
(July 30, 1933 – 1988) * ''Chris Welkin—Planeteer'' by Art Sansom and
Russell R. Winterbotham Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books. He also wrote crime stories and one sci ...
(1952 – 1964) * ''
Dark Shadows ''Dark Shadows'' is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinspo ...
'' by
Ken Bald Kenneth Bruce Bald (August 1, 1920 – March 17, 2019) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for the '' Dr. Kildare'' and ''Dark Shadows'' newspaper comic strips. Due to contractual obligations, he is credited as "K. Bruce" ...
("K. Bruce") (March 14, 1971 – March 11, 1972) * ''The Doings of the Duffs'' originally by
Walter R. Allman Walter Rease Allman (February 27, 1884 – July 8, 1924) was an American cartoonist who created the newspaper gag comic ''The Doings of the Duffs''. The strip was launched on July 30, 1914. Allman's last strip was dated January 16, 1924, but the s ...
, then Ben Batsford & Buford Tune (1925 – 1928; moved to
United Feature Syndicate United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along wit ...
until 1931) * '' Eek & Meek'' by
Howie Schneider Howard Adolph Schneider (April 24, 1930 – June 28, 2007), better known as Howie Schneider, was an award-winning cartoonist, sculptor and children's book author who lived and worked in Massachusetts. His best-known comic strip, '' Eek & Me ...
(1965 – 2000) * ''Efficiency Ed'' by
Edgar Martin Edgar Everett Martin (July 6, 1898 – August 31, 1960), known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, ''Boots and Her Buddies'', running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 6 ...
(January 2, 1922 – March 18, 1922) * ''Fables of 1921'' by
Edgar Martin Edgar Everett Martin (July 6, 1898 – August 31, 1960), known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, ''Boots and Her Buddies'', running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 6 ...
(1921) * '' Flapper Fanny Says'' by
Ethel Hays Ethel Hays (March 13, 1892 – March 19, 1989) was an American syndicated cartoonist specializing in flapper-themed comic strips in the 1920s and 1930s. She drew in Art Deco style. In the later part of her career, during the 1940s and 1950s, sh ...
(c. 1924 – 1940s) * '' Freckles and His Friends'' originally by Merrill Blosser (1915 – 1971) * ''Herky'' by
Clyde Lewis Clyde Lewis (born 25 September 1997) is an Australian competitive swimmer. He currently represents the Cali Condors which is part of the International Swimming League. Lewis won the gold medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 2018 Com ...
(1935 – 1941) * ''J. Rabbit, Esquire'' by Bill Holman (1922) * ''Kevin the Bold'' by Kreigh Collins (October 1, 1950 – October 27, 1968) * '' Kit 'n' Carlyle'' by Larry Wright (1980–2015) * ''The Little People'' by Walt Scott (1952 – 1969) * ''Miniature Movies'' / ''Chestnut Charlie'' by Merrill Blosser (July 1916 – early 1918) * ''Mitzi McCoy'' by Kreigh Collins (November 7, 1948 – September 24, 1950) * ''Mom 'n Pop'' (later ''The Newfangles'' from 1932 to 1936) by Loron Taylor and Wood CowanRon Goulart,''The Funnies : 100 years of American comic strips''. Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Pub., 1995. . (pp.66 72,117,148-9,159,176,189,194-5,211) (1924 – 1936) * '' Morty Meekle'' (later '' Winthrop'') by Dick Cavalli (1955–1966; 1966–1994) * ''Myra North, Special Nurse'' by Charles Coll and Ray Thompson (February 10, 1936 – August 31, 1941) * ''The Nut Brothers'' (December 19, 1921 – October 14, 1922) by
Gene Ahern Eugene Leslie Ahern (September 16, 1895 – March 6, 1960) was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel '' Our Boarding House''. Many of Ahern's comic strips took ...
and then
Edgar Martin Edgar Everett Martin (July 6, 1898 – August 31, 1960), known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, ''Boots and Her Buddies'', running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 6 ...
— later became a topper for ''
Our Boarding House ''Our Boarding House'' is an American Panel (comics), single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it d ...
'' * ''Otto Honk'' by
Bela Zaboly Bela P. Zaboly (May 1910 – April 1985), a.k.a. Bill Zaboly, was an American cartoonist best known for his work on ''Thimble Theatre'' with ''Popeye''. Zaboly's illustrated signature used the initials BZ with the "B" formed by the wings of a bee ...
(early 1930s – 1936) * ''
Our Boarding House ''Our Boarding House'' is an American Panel (comics), single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern on October 3, 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it d ...
'' by
Gene Ahern Eugene Leslie Ahern (September 16, 1895 – March 6, 1960) was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel '' Our Boarding House''. Many of Ahern's comic strips took ...
Horn, Maurice. ''100 Years of American Newspaper Comics'' (Gramercy Books : New York, Avenel, 1996), , . ''Our Boarding House'' entry, pp. 230-231 (1921 – 1984) * ''
Out Our Way ''Out Our Way'' was an American single-panel comic strip series by Canadian-American comic strip artist J. R. Williams. Distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and ...
'' by J. R. Williams (1922 – 1977) * '' The Outbursts of Everett True'' by A.D. Condo and J.W. Raper (1905 – 1927) * '' Priscilla's Pop'' by Al Vermeer (1946 – 1983) * '' Raising Duncan'' by
Chris Browne Christopher Kelly Browne (May 16, 1952 – February 5, 2023) was an American comic strip artist and cartoonist. He was the son of cartoonist Dik Browne and brother of cartoonist Chance Browne. From 1989 to 2023, Browne wrote and drew the comic s ...
(August 16, 2000 – January 2005) * ''
Red Ryder Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a seconda ...
'' by
Stephen Slesinger Stephen Slesinger (December 25, 1901 – December 17, 1953) was an American radio, television and film producer, creator of comic strip characters and the father of the licensing industry. From 1923 to 1953, he created, produced, published, develo ...
and
Fred Harman Fred Charles Harman II (February 9, 1902 - January 2, 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for his popular ''Red Ryder'' comic strip, which he drew for 25 years, reaching 40 million readers through 750 newspapers. Harman sometimes used th ...
(November 6, 1938 – September 30, 1965) * ''Robin Malone'' by
Bob Lubbers Robert Bartow Lubbers (January 10, 1922 – July 8, 2017) was an American comic strip and comic book artist best known for his work on such strips as ''Tarzan'', ''Li'l Abner'' and ''Long Sam''. Biography Born Robert Bartow Lubbers in 1922, he be ...
(1967 – May 1970) * ''Salesman Sam'' by George Swanson (September 26, 1921 – 1936) * ''Short Ribs'' by
Frank O'Neal Frank O'Neal (May 9, 1921 – October 10, 1986)
at the George Clark,''Sandusky Register'', February 11, 1934.
/ref> later by "Galbraith" (William Galbraith Crawford) * '' Snake Tales'' by Allan Salisbury (1970s) * '' Soup to Nutz'' by Rick Stromoski (2000–2018) * ''Squirrel Food'' / ''Otto Auto'' / ''Balmy Benny'' by Gene Ahern (1915–1921) * ''
Star Hawks ''Star Hawks'' was a comic strip created by Ron Goulart and Gil Kane, first published on October 3, 1977, that ran through May 2, 1981. It was written through April 1979 by Goulart, followed by Archie Goodwin (1979-1980), Roger McKenzie (1980- ...
'' by
Gil Kane Gil Kane (; born Eli Katz ; April 6, 1926 – January 31, 2000) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versio ...
and
Ron Goulart Ronald Joseph Goulart (; January 13, 1933 – January 14, 2022) was an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author. He published novelizations and other work under various pseudonyms: Kenneth Robeson, Con ...
(October 3, 1977 – c. 1979; moved to United Features, where it ran until May 2, 1981) * ''The Story of Martha Wayne'' by Wilson Scruggs (May 1953 – November 1962) * ''Taken From Life'' by
Edgar Martin Edgar Everett Martin (July 6, 1898 – August 31, 1960), known to his family and friends as Abe Martin, was an American cartoonist, who kept his comic strip, ''Boots and Her Buddies'', running for decades, eventually reaching an audience of 6 ...
(July 24, 1922 – February 16, 1924) * ''Up Anchor!'' by Kreigh Collins (November 3, 1968 – February 27, 1972) * ''Vic Flint'' by Ernest "East" Lynn and Ralph Lane
Maurice Horn Maurice Horn (born 1931) is a French-American comics historian, author, and editor, considered to be one of the first serious academics to study comics. He is the editor of ''The World Encyclopedia of Comics'', ''The World Encyclopedia of Cartoon ...
, ''The World Encyclopedia of Comics'', Chelsea House, New York, 1976. (p. 686)
(Jan. 6, 1946 – March 1967) * ''
Wash Tubbs ''Wash Tubbs'' is an American daily comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1949, when it merged into Crane's related Sunday page, ''Captain Easy''. Crane left both strips in 1943 to begin ''Buz Sawyer'', but a series of ...
'' by
Roy Crane Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establi ...
(April 14, 1924 – 1949; merged into ''
Captain Easy '' Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune '' is an American action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933. The strip ran for more than five decades until it ...
'')


Syndicated editorial cartoons

* Robert Ariail * Bill Crawford * Matt Davies *
John Fischetti John R. Fischetti (September 27, 1916 – November 18, 1980) was an editorial cartoonist for the '' New York Herald Tribune'' and the '' Chicago Daily News''. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous award ...
(1951–1962) *
Herblock Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretch ...
(1933–1943) * Jerry Holbert * Drew Litton's '' Win, Lose, Drew'' (sports) *
Murray Olderman Murray Olderman (March 27, 1922 – June 10, 2020) was an American sports cartoonist and writer. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above the Hall of F ...
(on sports) * Rob Rogers *
Bill Schorr Bill Schorr is an American cartoonist of syndicated editorial cartoons and comic strips. Early life Schorr was born in New York City, and was raised in and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and California. Career Schorr has been an editoria ...
* Jeff Stahler


See also

*
Newspaper Enterprise Association NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award Beginning in 1966 the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) annually awarded the George Halas Trophy to the most outstanding defensive player in the National Football League (NFL). The winner was released via the NEA news service and also appeared ...
* Toni Mendez * Newspaper Enterprise Association NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award


References


External links

*
List of NEA Christmas strips (1936–2010), with credits
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