Editing King Features Syndicate (section)

== Editors ==
In the 1940s, [[Ward Greene]] (1893–1956) was King Features' editor, having worked his way up through the ranks. He was a reporter and war correspondent for the ''[[Atlanta Journal]]'' for four years (1913–17), moving to the ''[[New-York Tribune]]'' in 1917 and then returning to the ''Atlanta Journal'' as correspondent in France and Germany (1918–19). He joined King Features in 1920, became a writer and editor of the magazine section in 1925, advancing to executive editor and general manager.<ref name=NYTimes>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/01/23/86508845.html?zoom=16 "WARD GREEN DIES: A HEARST OFFICIAL,"] ''New York Times '' (January 23, 1956), p. 25.</ref>

Vice president Bradley Kelly (1894–1969) was a comics editor during the 1940s.

[[Sylvan Byck]] (1904–1982) was head editor of the syndicate's comics features for several decades, from the 1950s until his retirement in 1978. A King Features employee for more than 40 years and comics editor for 33 years, Byck was 78 when he died July 8, 1982. Comic-strip artist [[John Celardo]] (1918–2012) began as a King comics editor in 1973.

In 1973, Tom Pritchard (1928–1992) joined King Features, and became executive editor in 1990, overseeing daily editorial operations and the development of political cartoons, syndicated columns, and editorial services for King Features and North America Syndicate. Born in [[Bronxville, New York]], Pritchard arrived at King Features after work as a reporter at ''The Record-Journal'' ([[Meriden, Connecticut]]), as feature writer with ''The Hartford Times'', as editor-publisher of Connecticut's weekly ''Wethersfield Post'', and as executive editor of ''The Manchester Journal Inquirer'' in Connecticut. He died of a heart attack in December 1992 at his home in [[Norwalk, Connecticut|Norwalk]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/09/obituaries/tom-pritchard-editor-64.html?src=pm "Tom Pritchard; Editor, 64", ''The New York Times'', December 9, 1992.]</ref>

In 1978, cartoonist [[Bill Yates]] (1921–2001) took over as King Features' comics editor. He had previously edited [[Dell Publishing]]'s cartoon magazines (''1000 Jokes'', ''Ballyhoo'', ''For Laughing Out Loud'') and Dell's paperback cartoon collections. Yates resigned from King Features at the end of 1988 to spend full-time on his cartooning, and he died March 26, 2001.

In 1988, Yates was replaced by [[Jay Kennedy]] — author of ''The Official Underground & Newave Comix Price Guide'' (Norton Boatner, 1982). Kennedy was King Features' lead editor until March 15, 2007, when he drowned in a riptide while vacationing in Costa Rica.<ref name=Heller>Heller, Steven. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/arts/19kennedy.html "Jay Kennedy, 50, an Editor and Scholar of Comic Strips, Is Dead,"] ''New York Times'' (March 19, 2007).</ref>

Brendan Burford, who attended the [[School of Visual Arts]], was employed for a year as an editorial assistant at [[DC Comics]] before joining King Features as an editorial assistant in January 2000. Working closely with Jay Kennedy over a seven-year span, he was promoted to associate editor and then, after Kennedy's death, to the position of comics editor on April 23, 2007.

In November 2018, Tea Fougner was promoted to editorial director for comics after working as an editor at King Features for nine years.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Degg|first=D. D.|date=March 14, 2020|title=King Features Editorial Director TEA is Interviewed|url=http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/03/13/king-features-editorial-director-tea-is-interviewed/|access-date=January 4, 2022|website=The Daily Cartoonist|language=en-US}}</ref> She is the first [[Sex assignment|female-assigned]] and first [[Non-binary gender|genderqueer]] person to oversee comics editorial at King Features.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fitzsimons|first=Kate|title=More To Come 443: Tea Fougner King Features Interview|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?podcast=1105&channel=2|access-date=January 4, 2022|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref>

=== Comics editors ===
* 1940s: Bradley Kelly
* 1946–1956: [[Ward Greene]]
* 1956–1978: Sylvan Byck
* 1978–1988: [[Bill Yates]]
* 1988–2007: [[Jay Kennedy]]
* 2007–2017: Brendan Burford
* 2018–Present: Tea Fougner