{"id":1409,"date":"2011-02-25T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2011-02-26T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T03:20:58","slug":"andrews-mcmeel-makes-kansas-city-comic-strip-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Andrews McMeel makes Kansas City comic strip central"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/universal_uclick_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1410\" title=\"universal_uclick_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/universal_uclick_logo.png\" alt=\"Universal Uclick\" width=\"140\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Universal Uclick, a division of Kansas City&#39;s Andrews McMeel Universal, will begin distributing United Feature Syndicate properties in June.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kansas City publishing powerhouse Andrews McMeel Universal has announced that its Universal Uclick division has agreed to become the full-service syndication partner of Scripps\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 United Feature Syndicate properties.  As of June 1, 2011, Universal Uclick will manage all aspects of syndication for United Feature Syndicate properties including <em>Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, Marmaduke, Frank &amp; Ernest, The Born Loser, Big Nate<\/em> and <em>Miss Manners<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The new properties will join Universal Uclick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stable of syndicated comic strips, including comic heavyweights <em>Doonesbury, Garfield, Non Sequitur, For Better or For Worse<\/em> and <em>Ziggy<\/em>. Universal Uclick has also recently announced agreements to syndicate <em>Peanuts<\/em> and <em>Dilbert<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We could not be more pleased to welcome the inspired creators represented by these features,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said John McMeel, co-founder, chairman, and president of Andrews McMeel Universal.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When we began this venture in 1970, and our office was on the 5th floor of a Manhattan walk-up, we would never have believed AMU would be in this position today.  However, our goal has always been to represent the best.  The addition of these features and creators to our outstanding lineup moves us further toward that goal, and establishes an extraordinary roster that is unmatched in the industry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City publishing powerhouse Andrews McMeel Universal has announced that its Universal Uclick division has agreed to become the full-service syndication partner of Scripps\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 United Feature Syndicate properties. As of June 1, 2011, Universal Uclick will manage all aspects of syndication for United Feature Syndicate properties including Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, Marmaduke, Frank &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Andrews McMeel makes Kansas City comic strip central&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[443,445,444],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-andrews-mcmeel-publishing","tag-united-feature-syndicate","tag-universal-uclick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}