National
Cartoonists Society (NCS)
Southern
California Cartoonists Society (they are also the San Diego
Chapter of the NCS)
Great
Lakes Chapter of the NCS, by Mark
Szorady
Southeast Chapter
of the NCS
The
NCS Brad Sherman Gallery)
Association
of American Editorial Cartoonists (best cartoonist site
on the Web)
ASIFA
Hollywood - International Animated Film Society
Cartoonists
Northwest (Washington state cartoonists group)
Graphic Artists Guild
National Caricaturists
Network
Comic
Book Legal Defense Fund - a group defending us against censorship
MPSC Local 839
(animation union) and the American Animation Institute
National
Cartoonists Society's Wisenheimer Bulletin Board - a great
professional chat forum, requires a password, e-mail Wisenheimermaster,
Ted Goff to request
the secret word
Open Prairie Syndicate,
Gay cartoons from alternative papers
Museums:
Museum
of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton Florida --great place, great
site!
The Cartoon Art Museum
--a great institution in San Francisco
Words and Pictures
Museum --the virtual cartoon museum
Michigan State University
Library Comic Art Collection
Ohio
State University Comic Research Libraries --a modest site
for the largest collection of them all
Syndicates:
Universal
Press Syndicate - nice updating cartoons and a postcard feature
Tribune
Media Services - not the best syndicate site, but a nice
bulletin board feature for each cartoon
United
Media - king of the syndicates on the web, by virtue of Dilbert's
popularity
King
Features Syndicate - a great site with tons of updating cartoons
and biographical information on the cartoonists
Cartoonists
& Writers Syndicate Editorial Cartoonists from Around
the World
Creators Syndicate - Some
of their features are updated with a two week embargo; what's
there is very nice.
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
-- Little cartoon content
Here are the snail mail addresses for the major newspaper
syndicates:
Richard Newcombe
Creators Syndicate
5777 W. Century Boulevard, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(Momma, B.C., The Wizard of Id, One Big Happy ...)
Submission instructions
Jay Kennedy
King Features Syndicate
235 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017
(Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, Baby Blues, Family Circus, Beetle
Bailey ...)
Anita Tobias
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
218 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(Dr. Katz, Love Is ...)
Tribune Media Services
435 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1500
Chicago, IL 60611
(Mother Goose and Grimm, Shoe, Mixed Media, Dick Tracy ...)
Submission
instructions
Amy Lago
United Media
200 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(Peanuts, Dilbert, Jumpstart, Drabble, Marmaduke ...)
Lee Salem
Universal Press Syndicate
4520 Main Street
Kansas City, Mo. 64111
(Garfield, Cathy, Doonesbury, For Better or for Worse ...)
Submission
instructions
Alan Shearer
Washington Post Writers Group
1150 15th Street NW
Washington D.C. 20071
(Non-Sequitur ...)
Glenda Winders
Editorial Director
Copley News Service
123 Camino de la Reina
Suite E-250
San Diego, CA 92108
619-293-1818
Bryce Miller
President and General Manager
ParadigmTSA
P.O. Box 111372
Stamford, CT 06911-1372
877-888-7872
The contact names are the editors who will consider submissions.
Fans can write to any syndicated cartoonist c/o their syndicate
and the mail is forwarded. It really is.
