United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

United Feature Syndicate, Inc. is a large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919 (legally in 1923). Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along with the Newspaper Enterprise Association) from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication. It has syndicated many notable comic strips, including Peanuts, Garfield, Li'l Abner, Dilbert, Nancy, and Marmaduke. Generally used as copyright credit for artwork. Name variation: - United Features Syndicate, Inc. Please consider also United Feature Syndicate, when credited that way on release. NY company number: 18522 Incorporated: 16 May 1923 Merged in: 'Television Data Inc.' on 28 December 1979 Dissolved: 1 August 2012