KING FEATURES SYNDICATE OFFERS CREATIVE AND AFFORDABLE HOLIDAY GIFT FOR JUST $15
ottobre 30th, 2006 by Ludus
Innovative Online Subscription Service Offers Exclusive Access To Complete Line-Up Of Internationally Renowned Comic Strips And Editorial Cartoons
New York – October 19, 2006 – Celebrate the holidays with King Features Syndicate and give the comic strip fans in your life the ultimate gift, DailyINK.com. Be the most creative gift giver in the family, by giving a gift that the recipient can use right away and appreciate for the entire year for just $15.00. This unique, online subscription service marks the ONLY place – both on the Internet and in print – to enjoy daily delivery of King Features’ complete line-up of approximately 75 comic strips including fan favorites such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Blondie, Mutts, Zits, Bizarro, Dennis the Menace, Family Circus, Mallard Fillmore and Baby Blues, as well as the newly launched strips Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop, Retail, The Pajama Diaries and The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee.
Fun for Adults, Affordable for Kids!
A gift subscription to DailyINK.com costs just $15.00 a year, so both children and adults alike can give any family member or friend a truly unique gift that can be enjoyed throughout the year. Not only is this gift subscription a creative option for the holiday season, but it makes the perfect affordable present for kids to give Mom or Dad. In addition to today’s premier strips to choose from, a DailyINK.com gift subscription offers content from King Features’ vast vintage and classic comic library that dates back to the 1930’s. Subscribers can experience the early years of such groundbreaking strips as Krazy Kat, Popeye The Sailor Man, The Phantom, Bringing Up Father, Beetle Bailey’s comic-strip debut, Buz Sawyer, Rip Kirby and Flash Gordon. The site also offers a wide range of editorial cartoons, puzzles and games not available anywhere else online–all of which can be accessed immediately on Christmas morning.
An Exceptional Online Experience
DailyINK.com enables subscribers to truly customize the way in which they experience the site’s vast content. Members can create their own personalized comics page featuring their favorite current and vintage strips and editorial cartoons laid out as they desire. The customized page can be emailed to users daily or accessed via a password-protected area on the web site. Each current strip will be archived, allowing members who miss a day to catch up on the adventures. New, vintage and classic strips will be introduced periodically while some will unfold from their origin, allowing readers to experience these hits from the beginning. The comics come in large size and full color and can be further magnified using the magnifying glass feature.
In addition to the actual strips, DailyINK.com provides background information on each comic and profiles of the artists and writers. Subscribers can also create their own custom merchandise including T-shirts and mugs emblazoned with any strip they choose, and personalized online scrapbooks to compile their favorites.
An innovative feature many readers enjoy is the magnifying glass. The visitor who wants to give a DailyINK subscription to a relative or friend, but is concerned about the person’s poor eyesight, will welcome the magnifying glass icon, which allows the reader to enlarge the comic strips and editorial cartoons to full-screen width with just one simple click.
Archival-Quality Reprints of Comic-Strip Favorites Now Available
A brand new feature added to the site allows DailyINK subscribers to purchase high quality prints of popular comic strips including Popeye, Prince Valiant, The Phantom, Triple Take, Mandrake the Magician, Mark Trail, Judge Parker, Tiger, Mary Worth, Apartment 3-G, The Katzenjammer Kids and Barney Google and Snuffy Smith through the King Features Print Shop.
These “giclee� prints are generated from a high resolution digital file and produced using archival inks on various fine art and photo quality paper stocks. Prints are available from $25-$100 depending on size, paper quality and framing.
About King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate is a member of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication Group, which combines The Hearst Corporation’s cable network partnerships, television programming activities, and newspaper syndication and merchandise licensing operations. King Features is the world’s premier distributor of comics, columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games, distributing some 150 features to nearly 5,000 newspapers around the globe. It is one of the largest and most experienced organizations in merchandising licensing. Among its most beloved and successful classic characters are “Popeye,� “Betty Boop,� “Blondie� and “Dennis the Menace.� In recent years, the company has diversified and now represents properties such as the trendy apparel and accessory brands, David & Goliath and Chat Gurlz; the publicly displayed, life-size art sculptures GuitarMania and The Trail of Painted Ponies; and the conscientious-living brand “Mutts.�
Press realese by
Rose McAllister
Marketing Manager
King Features Syndicate
300 West 57th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10019-5238
Telephone: (212) 969-7594
Fax: (646) 280-1594
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