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Newspaper Enterprise Association
Type |
Print syndication |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1902 (1902); began syndicating in 1907 |
| Founder | E. W. Scripps |
| Headquarters | United States, Chicago |
Key people |
Boyd Lewis Murray Olderman |
| Services | editorial columns and comic strips |
| Owner | E. W. Scripps Company (1902–2011) Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (2011–present) |
| Parent | E. W. Scripps Company (1902–1978) United Media (1978–2011) Andrews McMeel Universal (2011–present) |
The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1902. Originally a secondary news service to the Scripps Howard News Service, the NEA later evolved into a general syndicate best known for syndicating the comic strips Alley Oop, Freckles and His Friends, The Born Loser, Frank and Ernest, and Captain Easy / Wash Tubbs; in addition to an annual Christmas comic strip.[1] Along with United Feature Syndicate, the NEA was part of United Media from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication. The NEA once presented awards in professional and college football.
Contents
1 History
2 Football awards
2.1 College football awards
2.2 NFL awards
3 Syndicated columns
4 Comic strips and cartoons
4.1 NEA Christmas strip
4.2 Newspaper Enterprises Association comic strips
4.2.1 Current NEA strips
4.2.2 Concluded NEA strips
4.3 Syndicated editorial cartoons
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History
On June 2, 1902, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, based in Cleveland, Ohio, 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.
Successful early NEA comic strips included A.D. Condo & J.W. Raper's The Outbursts of Everett True, and Merrill Blosser's Freckles and His Friends.
NEA moved from Cleveland to Chicago in 1915, with an office in San Francisco. NEA rapidly grew and delivered content to 400 newspapers in 1920.[2] At that time, it had some 100 features available.[3]
Alfred O. Andersson was general manager of the NEA from 1919 to 1921.
NEA became a successful distributor of newspaper comics in the 1920s and 1930s.[4] Long-running NEA strips that launched during the 1920s included Roy Crane's Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy, Ethel Hays' Flapper Fanny Says, Edgar Martin's Boots and Her Buddies, and J. R. Williams' Out Our Way; and popular NEA strips that originated in the 1930s include V. T. Hamlin's Alley Oop and Stephen Slesinger & Fred Harman's Red Ryder.
By 1930, NEA had about 700 client newspapers.[2]
Cartoonist Herb Block (Herblock) moved to Cleveland in 1933 to become the staff cartoonist for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, which distributed his cartoons nationally. While there, he won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1942. In 1934 and 1935, Mary Margaret McBride was the women's page editor for the NEA.
Boyd Lewis became the executive editor of the NEA Service in 1945; he was president in 1968.[5]Al Vermeer's Priscilla's Pop was a long-running strip that launched in 1946.
Sports cartoonist and writer Murray Olderman had a long association with NEA. Firstly, his columns and cartoons were syndicated by the agency.[6] 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.[6][7] He also founded the NEA All-Pro team in 1954, which ran through 1992.[6] Although Olderman "retired" in 1987, he was active until the news service was overtaken by a larger corporation.
The Newspaper Enterprise Association was a granting institution in the selection of the NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans teams in 1938 and from 1953 to 1963.
In 1968, the NEA was offering about 75 features to more than 750 client newspapers.[5]
In the 1970s, Ira Berkow was sports editor for the NEA.[8]
In May 1978 the Scripps Company merged its two syndication arms, NEA and United Feature Syndicate, to form United Media Enterprises.[9][10]
On February 24, 2011, United Media struck a distribution deal with Universal Uclick (now known as Andrews McMeel Syndication) for syndication of the company's 150 comic strip and news features, which became effective on June 1 of that year.[11][12] While United Media effectively ceased to exist,[13] Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights.[14][15]
Both United Media, and then Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication, continued to syndicate strips under the Newspaper Enterprise Association brand.
Football awards
College football awards
From 1924 to 1996, the NEA was the selector of All-America teams.
NFL awards
Beginning in 1954 the Newspaper Enterprise Association, under the guidance of Murray Olderman,[16] began to poll NFL players and award what became known as the Players' All-Pro team. In addition, the NEA awarded a Rookie of the Year, a Most Valuable Player (since 1955), and a Defensive Player of the Year (George S. Halas Trophy; 1966–96). All were accepted as official and were published in the NFL Record and Fact Book alongside the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Pro Football Writers Association All-Pro teams and awards. The NEA last announced awards in 1997 and last had an All-Pro team in 1992, ending a 34-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 World Almanac which was an NEA publication.
The NFL MVP award was called the Jim Thorpe Trophy and began in 1955 (not to be confused with college football's Jim Thorpe Award). 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. Currently[when?] the Jim Thorpe Trophy is still awarded, through the Jim Thorpe Association of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[citation needed] It is awarded to the NFL Most Valuable Player and is voted upon by members of the NFLPA.
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
- Mary Margaret McBride
Ask Dick Kleiner by Dick Kleiner (1975–2001)- Morton Kondracke
NEA Bridge by Phillip Alder
- Joe Williams on sports (1938–1940s)
Comic 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.[17] 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 notes over the years these strips have featured regular NEA characters, adapted classic Christmas stories, and original stories with single-appearance characters. The 1942 strip, "Santa's Victory Christmas," had a WWII-era theme of conserving raw materials to further the war effort and was drawn by Superman ghost artist Leo Nowak.[18] The 1967 entry, Bucky's Christmas Caper, was written and drawn by famed comic book creator Wally Wood.[19]
Newspaper Enterprises Association comic strips
Current NEA strips
Alley Oop originally by V. T. Hamlin (est. 1932)
Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson (est. July 29, 1985)
Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce (est. January 7, 1991)
The Born Loser, originally by Art Sansom (est. May 10, 1965)
Drabble by Kevin Fagan (est. 1979)
Frank and Ernest originally by Bob Thaves (est. 1972)
The Grizzwells by Bill Schorr (est. 1987)
Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler (est. 2003)
Concluded NEA strips
The Affairs of Jane by Chic Young (September 26, 1921 – March 18, 1922)
Annibelle by Dorothy Urfer (1929 – 1939)
Ben Casey by Neal Adams 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)[20]
Biff Baker by Ernest "East" Lynn and Henry Schlensker (1941 – 1945)
Brenda Breeze by Rolfe Mason (1939 – 1962)
Boots and Her Buddies by Edgar Martin (1924 – 1968)
Captain Easy by Roy Crane[21] (July 30, 1933 – 1988)
Chris Welkin—Planeteer by Art Sansom and Russell R. Winterbotham (1952 – 1964)
Eek & Meek by Howie Schneider (1965 – 2000)
Flapper Fanny Says by Ethel Hays (c. 1924 – 1940s)
Freckles and His Friends by Merrill Blosser (1915 – 1971)
Herky by Clyde Lewis (1935 – 1941)
J. Rabbit, Esquire by Bill Holman (1922)
Kit 'n' Carlyle by Larry Wright (1980–2015)
The Little People by Walt Scott (1952 – 1969)
Mom 'n Pop (later The Newfangles from 1932 to 1936) by Loron Taylor and Wood Cowan[22] (1924 – 1936)
Morty Meekle (later Winthrop) by Dick Cavalli (1955–1966; 1966–1994)
Myra North, Special Nurse by Charles Coll and Ray Thompson[22] (February 10, 1936 – August 31, 1941)
Our Boarding House by Gene Ahern[23] (1921 – 1984)
Out Our Way by J. R. Williams [22] (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)
Red Ryder by Stephen Slesinger and Fred Harman (November 6, 1938–September 30, 1965)
Robin Malone by Bob Lubbers[24] (1967 – May 1970)
Salesman Sam by George Swanson[22] (September 26, 1921 – 1936)
Short Ribs by Frank O'Neal (1958 – 1973)
Snake Tales by Allan Salisbury (1970s)
Soup to Nutz by Rick Stromoski (2000–2018)
Star Hawks by Gil Kane and Ron Goulart[25] (1977 – May 2, 1981)
The Story of Martha Wayne by Wilson Scruggs (May 1953 – November 1962)[22]
Vic Flint by Ernest "East" Lynn and Ralph Lane[26] (Jan. 6, 1946 – March 1967)
Wash Tubbs by Roy Crane[21] (April 14, 1924 – 1949)
Syndicated editorial cartoons
- Bill Crawford
John Fischetti (1951–1962)
Herblock (1933–1943)
Murray Olderman (on sports)- Bill Schorr
See also
- Newspaper Enterprise Association NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award
- Toni Mendez
References
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^ "News Features Services Merge As United Media". United Press International. May 19, 1978. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
^ "United Features consolidates," The Comics Journal #44 (Jan. 1979), p. 17.
^ Universal Uclick to Provide Syndicate Services for United Media, PR Newswire, February 24, 2011.
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^ Cavna, Michael (July 1, 2011). "RIP, UNITED MEDIA: A century-old syndicate closes its historic doors". The Washington Post.
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^ [1][permanent dead link], Editor & Publisher, April 29, 2011. Accessed April 29, 2011.
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^ The Magic Christmas Tree Part I In the comments section Allan Holtz notes "Last year [2010] was the final one offered by NEA (another reprint). This year, Universal, which now owns the syndicate, said they wouldn't be issuing one. And I very much doubt they'll change their mind in coming years".
^ "Santa's Victory Christmas," Hogan's Alley, 2012 Archived December 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Stripper's Guide: Santa's Secrets, Day 1". strippersguide.blogspot.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ Holtz, Allan. "Obscurity of the Day: The Bicker Family," Stripper's Guide (November 06, 2006).
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External links
- List of NEA Christmas strips (1936–2010), with credits
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