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Universal Uclick is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and cartoons and various other content. Some of its most well-known features include Dear Abby, ''Doonesbury'', ''Ziggy'', ''Garfield'', Ann Coulter, Richard Roeper and News of the Weird. A subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, it is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Universal Uclick was formed in July 2009 following the merger of Universal Press Syndicate with the digital entertainment company Uclick.〔("Universal Press Syndicate and Uclick Merge". Gardner, Alan. The Daily Cartoonist, July 8, 2009. )〕 Il 2011, it acquired United Feature Syndicate to become the largest American press syndicate. ==History== Universal Press Syndicate was founded in 1970 by Jim Andrews and John McMeel.〔(Universal Press Syndicate )〕 The company began syndicating Garry Trudeau’s ''Doonesbury'' comic strip in October 1970. Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1975 for his work on ''Doonesbury'', and the strip is now syndicated in more than 1,400 newspapers worldwide.〔(''Doonesbury'' )〕 Over the following decades, the syndicate added other well-known comic strips including Ziggy, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Foxtrot, Baldo, The Boondocks, In the Bleachers, NonSequitur, Stone Soup, Real Life Adventures, Cornered, Lio, Cul De Sac, Thatababy, Wumo, editorial cartoonists and columnists. On February 24, 2011, Universal Uclick signed a deal with United Media to handle syndication of the latter company's 150 comic strip and news features beginning in June 1.〔(Universal Uclick to Provide Syndicate Services for United Media ), PR Newswire, February 24, 2011. 〕〔(United Media Outsources Content to Universal Uclick ), Editor & Publisher, April 29, 2011. 〕 As a result of this, Universal Uclick has become one of the largest print syndicators in the United States, as United Media was the company's main competitor in the industry (it is not quite a monopoly, since King Features Syndicate and Creators Syndicate still have extensive operations). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Universal Uclick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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