When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Kelly became close friends with fellow cartoonists Milton Caniff and Al Capp, and the three occasionally referred to each other in their strips.

At the time, Caniff was one of only two or three syndicated cartoonists who owned their creations, and he attracted considerable publicity as a result of this circumstance.

* November 22: The United Kingdom's Press Gazette names its 40 most influential journalists, and includes three cartoonists, Gerald Scarfe, Carl Giles, and Matt Pritchett.

** The Center for Cartoon Studies is auctioning a breakfast with three cartoonists as a means of raising funds.

Ducking inside, he found that three rifles were stacked in a corner.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

Greg took the formation wide around three A-26 attack bombers that were headed north over the Gulf.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

There were three years of this strange warfare ; ;

The casualties in the Army of the Cumberland were 22,807, while for all three armies they were 37,081.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

there were two or three colored maids employed there.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

There were times now, like this, when she lost control of the time count and moved freely back and forth into three generations.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

Of the major expansions in 1960, three were financed under the R. I. Industrial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage plan: Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American Tube & Controls.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Meanwhile, three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

Spectra were also obtained from a third sample of Af which had been diluted to three times its original volume with powdered, anhydrous alundum ( Af ).

The dosages in the three levels of the vertical profile were: Af

The cells were washed three times with saline, anti-human serum was added, the cells were resuspended, and the mixture was centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min and examined for agglutination.

But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.

Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy ( theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth and man ) and uses concepts such as yin and yang, the Five phases, the 10 Celestial stems, the 12 Earthly Branches, and shichen ( 時辰 a form of timekeeping used for religious purposes ).

In three papers which were published in 1952 – 53, Bohr and Mottelson demonstrated close agreement between theory and experiment ; for example, showing that the energy levels of certain nuclei could be described by a rotation spectrum.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

The A-type main sequence star has the multiple star designation WDS 19508 + 0852A and has three visual companion stars, WDS 19508 + 0852B, C, and D. Component B is not physically close to A but merely appears close to it in the sky.

Generally it is impossible to close two or three transactions at the same instant ; therefore, there is the possibility that when one part of the deal is closed, a quick shift in prices makes it impossible to close the other at a profitable price.

Marlborough reached Ladenburg, in the plain of the Neckar and the Rhine, and there halted for three days to rest his cavalry and allow the guns and infantry to close up.

Conquérant was defeated more rapidly, after heavy broadsides from passing British ships and the close attentions of Audacious and Goliath brought down all three masts before 19: 00.

By 03: 00, after more than three hours of close quarter combat, Majestic had lost its main and mizzen masts while Tonnant was a dismasted hulk.

Panzer forces were dispersed among the three German concentrations without strong emphasis on independent use, being used to create or destroy close pockets of Polish forces and seize operational-depth terrain in support of the largely un-motorized infantry which followed.

The three Slavic allies ( Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro ) had laid out extensive plans to coordinate their war efforts, in continuation of their secret prewar settlements and under close Russian supervision.

In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.

The infant is weaned at about three years old, but usually maintains a close relationship with its mother for several more years ; it reaches puberty at the age of eight to 10, and its lifespan in captivity is about 50 years.

The house was first broken into only three days after we moved in … The feeling was so close to extreme danger, and the fear was so intense.

Adenine pairs with thymine ( two hydrogen bonds ), and cytosine pairs with guanine ( three hydrogen bonds ) because a purine must pair with a pyrimidine: a pyrimidine cannot pair with another pyrimidine because the strands would be very close to each other ; in a purine pair, the strands would be too far apart and the structure would be unstable.

De Laurentiis had wanted them to film in his elaborate Wilmington studio, but the production team felt uneasy being so close to the producer, so they moved to Wadesboro, approximately three hours away.

Magellan had started out in Spain with five ships but by the time they reached the Marianas they were down to three ships and lost close to half their crew.

The main part of the Giza complex is a setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu ( one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile ), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller " satellite " pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles.

After the World Cup Cronje was part of the tour to the West Indies ; he featured in the three ODI's and in the Test match at Bridgetown that followed he made his Test debut, this was South Africa first Test since readmission and they came close to beating a strong West Indian side, going into the final day at 122 / 2 chasing 200 they collapsed to 148.

As two of the world's top three economic powers, both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acrimonious trade frictions.

During the reign of Juba II Emperor Augustus ( who created in the area of what is now northern Morocco 12 colonies with retired Roman legionaries ) had already founded three colonias, with Roman citizens, in Mauretania close to the Atlantic coast: Iulia Constantia Zilil, Iulia Valentia Banasa and Iulia Campestris Babba.

Just downriver from this, the mountains close in on either side of the Marañón, forming narrow gorges or pongos for a length of, where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than 35 rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which Charles Marie de La Condamine embarked in the 18th century to descend the Amazon.