Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Animation Print syndication |
Founded | 1914 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Products | Comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons |
Parent | Hearst Communications |
Subsidiaries | North America Syndicate Cowles Syndicate |
Website | kingfeatures |
King Features Syndicate, Inc. is an American content distribution and animation studio, 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 also produces intellectual properties, develops new content and franchises (like The Cuphead Show!, 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. King Features' affiliate syndicates are North America Syndicate and Cowles Syndicate.