Editing King Features Syndicate (section)

{{short description|American print syndication company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = King Features Syndicate, Inc.
| logo = King Features new.png
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| logo_caption = Logo used since 2016
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| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = [[Animation]]<br>[[Print syndication]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1914}}
| founders = {{plainlist|
* [[William Randolph Hearst]] 
* [[Moses Koenigsberg]]}}
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| hq_location_city = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| hq_location_country = U.S.
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| products = Comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons
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| subsid = North America Syndicate<br />Cowles Syndicate
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| parent = [[Hearst Communications]]
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| website = {{URL|https://kingfeatures.com/}}
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'''King Features Syndicate, Inc.''' is an American content distribution and [[animation studio]], consumer product [[License|licensing]] and [[print syndication]] company owned by [[Hearst Communications]] that distributes about 150 [[comic strip]]s, [[columnist|newspaper columns]], [[editorial cartoon]]s, [[puzzle]]s, and [[game]]s to nearly 5,000 [[newspaper]]s worldwide. King Features Syndicate also produces intellectual properties, develops new content and franchises (like ''[[The Cuphead Show!]]'', which it produced with [[Netflix]]), and licenses its classic characters and properties.

King Features Syndicate is a unit of Hearst Holdings, Inc., which combines the Hearst Corporation's [[Cable television in the United States|cable-network]] partnerships, television programming and distribution activities, and syndication companies. King Features' affiliate syndicates are North America Syndicate and Cowles Syndicate.