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The Comic Strip Barons Card Set
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 James
Gordon Bennett Jr. |
Bennett's
paper, the New York Herald, was the birthplace of numerous
legendary strips, including Winsor McCay's Little Sammy
Snneeze and Little Nemo in Slumberland, as well as R.F.
Outcault's Buster Brown. |
 Joseph
Pulitzer |
The
originator of the Sunday comics section and one of the
greatest forces behind the establishment of the comics
as a popular medium. Pulitzer published the Yellow Kid,
the "big bang" of the modern comic strip |
 Frank
Munsey |
If
Munsey had his way, we wouldn't be reading the comics
every day. When Munsey bought a newspaper--and he bought
numerous ones--typically one of his first acts was to
fire the cartoonists. |
 E.W.
Scripps |
Scripps'
great innovation was devising a method--the Newspaper
Enterprise Association--to distribute inexpensive comic
strips to rural newspapers that couldn't afford to purchase
rights to the most popular material. |
 S.S.
McClure |
McClure
was the first entrepreneur to develop a comic-strip
syndicate without the benefit of a home newspaper. His
syndicate handled the Superman newspaper strip and the
still-beloved King Aroo. |
 William
Randolph Hearst |
Early
on, Hearst recognized the ability of a comic strip to
sell newspapers, and he wooed the best cartooning talent
from competing newspaper, building King Features Syndicate
into the undisputed "king" of syndicates. |
 George
Matthew Adams |
Adams
created his eponymous syndicate mainly as a means of
distributing his own inspirational essays, but he branched
out into comic strips and panels. |
 Joseph
Medill Patterson |
Perhaps
more than any other cartooning overseer, Patterson had
his finger on the pulse of the common man, often suggesting
strip concepts to cartoonists and helping them shape
their own ideas into great successes. |
 John
F. Dille |
Like
Patterson, Dille often suggested ideas for strips to
his cartoonists. One of them, Buck Rogers, resulted
from Dille's fascination with technology. |
 John
Wheeler |
Just
as Hearst lured cartoonists from other syndicates with
lavish salaries, Wheeler made his mark as a syndicator
by luring Bud ("Mutt and Jeff") Fisher away
from Hearst by tripling his salary. |
 Marshall
Field III |
Field
launched the Chicago Sun and began syndicating its comic
strips to other papers as a means of providing revenue
for the home newspaper. Perhaps his biggest coup came
when Milton Caniff created Steve Canyon for Field. |
 John
Cowles |
The
scion of a banking fortune, Cowles created the Register
And Tribune Syndicate and, later, Cowles Communications.
The syndicate handled the legendary Spirit comic-book
section featuring the equally legendary Will Eisner. |
 John
McMeel |
McMeel
co-founded Universal Press Syndicate and helped move
comic strips into a more contemporary terrain by focusing
on material with an edgier, more creatively daring flair,
such as Doonesbury. |
 Richard
S. Newcombe |
Newcombe
founded Creators Syndicate on the premise that cartoonists
deserved the right to own their work, and he has used
that premise to build one of the most successful new
syndicates in years. |
