Richard S. Newcombe
| Richard S. Newcombe | |
|---|---|
 Rick Newcombe, Creators Syndicate founder | |
| Born |
Richard Sumner Newcombe 8 August 1950 Winnetka, Illinois, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Education | Georgetown University, BA; studied at University of Chicago for MBA |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University |
| Occupation | Chairman and CEO of Creators Syndicate |
| Board member of | Creators Syndicate |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Leo Newcombe (general manager of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times) |
Richard S. Newcombe (born August 8, 1950) is the founder and chairman of Creators Syndicate, an American independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns to daily newspapers, websites and other digital outlets located in Hermosa Beach, California.
Early life
Richard S. Newcombe was born on August 8, 1950, in Chicago, Illinois, to a prominent newspaper family. Newcombe's father, Leo Newcombe, served as senior vice president for the newspaper division of Field Enterprises and business manager and later as general manager of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times. Leo and Ann Newcombe had eight children, and they lived in Winnetka, Illinois. In 1969, Rick Newcombe was one of the first graduates of La Lumiere School,[1] an educational institution founded in 1963 in La Porte, Indiana, as a boarding and day school for boys. U.S. Supreme Court Newcombe then attended Georgetown University, where he was one of the founding editors of The Georgetown Voice, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magnum cum laude.
Career
Publishing
After graduating from Georgetown University in 1972, Newcombe worked as a reporter and editor at United Press International for four years. He also worked toward an MBA degree at the graduate business school at the University of Chicago. From 1978 to 1984, Newcombe served as vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. In 1984, he became president of News America Syndicate, which then was the third-largest syndicate in the world and owned by Rupert Murdoch. Three years later, Newcombe left News America Syndicate to form Creators Syndicate, an American independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns to daily newspapers and websites. Creators Syndicate was founded in Los Angeles on February 13, 1987, and moved to Hermosa Beach,[2][3][4] California, in 2012.
Within six months of forming his syndication company, Newcombe had acquired the syndication rights to Ann Landers,[2] then the world's most read and widely syndicated newspaper columnist,[2] the comic strip B.C.,[5] and the cartoon works of Herblock,[4] The Washington Post’s legendary editorial cartoonist.
Author
He contributed to the 1983 book The Businessman's Minutes-A-Day Guide to Shaping Up, by former champion bodybuilder and Italian actor Dr. Franco Columbu. He wrote the book In Search of Pipe Dreams (2003), which was translated into Mandarin and German, titled Der Traum vom Pfeifenrauchen in German (translation: The Dream of Pipe Smoking) (2007). He also wrote Still Searching for Pipe Dreams in 2010. In 2012, Newcombe contributed to the books Scandinavian Pipemakers, by Jan Andersson, and Shoulder Pain? the Solution and Prevention, by Dr. John Kirsch.
References
- ↑ Lange, Katie (April 2007). "La Lumiere Biography, April 2007 Mr. Rick Newcombe". Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Popular Advice Columnist Ann Landers Joins Tribune". Chicago Tribune. February 13, 1987. p. 4. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
|section=ignored (help) - ↑ David Astor (January 17, 1987). "Richard S. Newcombe leaves top exec post at NAS". Editor & Publisher 120: 46.
- 1 2 Katina Alexander (June 14, 1987). "A Superhero For Cartoonists?". New York Times. p. 34. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
|section=ignored (help) - ↑ Thomas Collins (April 26, 1987). "A boss who lets artists own the comics competitors call him a raider, 'but that implies that the talent is a caravan of slaves,' says the head of a new syndicate." (PDF). Newsday. p. 16. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
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