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| - Universal Uclick is an United States|American]] entertainment company owned by Andrews McMeel Universal]]. Universal Uclick is the world's largest content syndicate and provides syndication in print, online and on Mobile phone|mobile devices]] for a number of lifestyle and opinion columnist|columns]], comic strip]]s and cartoon]]s and various other content. Some of the company's most well-known features include Dear Abby]], Doonesbury]], Ziggy (comic strip)|Ziggy]], Garfield]], Ann Coulter]], Richard Roeper]] and News of the Weird]]. The company is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
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| - Universal Uclick is an United States|American]] entertainment company owned by Andrews McMeel Universal]]. Universal Uclick is the world's largest content syndicate and provides syndication in print, online and on Mobile phone|mobile devices]] for a number of lifestyle and opinion columnist|columns]], comic strip]]s and cartoon]]s and various other content. Some of the company's most well-known features include Dear Abby]], Doonesbury]], Ziggy (comic strip)|Ziggy]], Garfield]], Ann Coulter]], Richard Roeper]] and News of the Weird]]. The company is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Universal Uclick was formed in July 2009 with the merger of Universal Press Syndicate]] and the digital entertainment company Uclick]]. Universal Press Syndicate was founded in 1970 by Jim Andrews and John McMeel. The company began syndicating Garry Trudeau]]’s Doonesbury comic strip in October 1970. Trudeau won the Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning|editorial cartooning]] in 1975 for his work on Doonesbury, and the strip is now syndicated in more than 1,400 newspapers worldwide. Over the following decades, the syndicate added other well-known comic strips including Ziggy (comic strip)|Ziggy]], Cathy]], For Better or For Worse]], Calvin and Hobbes]], The Far Side]], Foxtrot]], Baldo]], The Boondocks (comic strip)|The Boondocks]], In the Bleachers]], NonSequitur]], Stone Soup]], Real Life Adventures]], Cornered (comic)|Cornered]], Lio]], Cul de Sac (comic strip)|Cul De Sac]], Thatababy]], Wumo]], editorial cartoonists and columnists. Uclick LLC was founded in the late 1990s by Andrews McMeel Universal to explore opportunities in the digital realm. The company syndicated comic strips, cartoons, games, puzzles and text columns to online news organizations and other websites, on desktop computers and mobile phones. In July 2009, Andrews McMeel Universal founder, chairman and president John McMeel, explained why the two companies were combined: The tradition and reputation that have made Universal Press Syndicate the destination for top-notch creative talents are now joining forces with the technological expertise, versatility, and new media innovations of Uclick. This is a historic move that brings together two industry leading companies to create a dynamic new organization capable of supporting today's renowned creative talents and the superstars of tomorrow, propelling them to new levels of popularity and success, as well as looking to the future by creating new distribution channels and outlets for this beloved art form.
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