King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a print syndication owned by The Hearst Corporation that distributes about 150 comic strips worldwide. One of their more notable cartoon strips was "Krazy Kat," by cartoonist George Herriman (1880-1944). It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run, which lasted from 1913-1944. |