NEWS/FEATURES
Who We Are:Continental Features/Continental News Service administers two newspaper-feature divisions: Champion Features and Spirit of ’76 Features. In doing so, for distribution of payment of a share of our newsmagazine sales and as an independent consumer purchaser of newspaper features, we have business-to-business relationships with or otherwise have contracted with award-winning travel columnist Ann Hattes(“Travelers Checks”), retired American League pitcher David Frost (“Sports and Families”), one-time Hollywood Reporter Managing Editor Harley Lond (“OnVideo”), outdoor columnist Lee Snyder (“The Politics of Nature” and “Getting There From Here”), humor columnist Mike Krivyanski (“No Assignment Too Difficult”), Fran Silverman (celebrity profiles), Gary P. Salamone(“Question Time With Public Figures”), Charles Hampton Savage (“News and Comment” and “Court Watch”), film critic Leslie Rigoulot (“Movie Talk”), Chris Mahove, and Gary P. Salamone/Editor-in-Chief (“Continental Viewpoint”).
CF/CNS caters, in part, with our children’s newspaper, on the one hand, and our cartoon line-up, on the other, to the younger generations of on-line and print newspaper readers. Similarly, for distribution of payment of a share of our newsmagazine sales and as an independent consumer purchaser of newspaper features, we have business-to-business relations with or otherwise have contracted with these cartoonists: Dick Leahy (“Great Moments”), Greg Panneitz (“Fusebox”), Brian Crowell (“J.V. All-American”), Mitch Schwenke and Alex Avedikian (“It Could Happen To Hugh!”), Mick Williams (“Mick’s Nuts” and “Morons With Money”), Jack Ricketson (“Chumley” and “Haywire History), M.L. Zanco (“The Upsite, ” “Heaven on Earth,” “P.U. LITICS,” and “The Upside”), David Anthony and Dan Alan (“Kwurks”), David Ward and Bryan Picken (“Arkane Humor,” “Reality Not Included,” “Ripped from the Headlines” and “Making Waves”), Roger Martin (“The Outer Edge” and “Plato and the Professor”), Phil Jones (“Size and Stupidity”), Martin Tanksley (“Cleo”), Neil Strahl and Rene Bindslev or Boris Grann (general cartoon humor), Ron Coleman (general cartoon humor), Al Elumn (“IT’S THE PITS”), plus Grea Korting, Norman Jung, Al Friedman, Tony Bittner, Edouard Blais, Jonny Hawkins, and Susan Knickerbocker.
Once again, for distribution of payment of a share of our newsmagazine sales and as an independent consumer purchaser of newspaper features, we have business-to-business relationships with or otherwise have contracted with editorial cartoonists Christopher Doyle–who, working under CF/CNS’ banner, has focused on news morsels spanning world, national and California state politics–and PIKE(“Portfolio”), whose caricatures of public figures in the news are easily recognizable.
Committed to developing and maintaining a diverse news-gathering organization and newspaper-feature agency, Continental Features/Continental News Service encourages writers, cartoonists and photographers, on the same business-to-business or contractual terms referenced above, to apply for sponsorship in syndication. Please write us at the address below for our current submission guidelines, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. An “online” version of these guidelines–kindly specify which one(s) relate(s) to your specific feature proposal–is also available by E-mailing CF/CNS at the E-mail address below. (No telephone calls, please.)
Note to Newspaper Editors/Publishers: You pay only tenths of a cent per subscriber for these newspaper-quality cartoon and text features—your principal cost being printing. Also, if your newspaper is part of a newspaper chain, you’ll be interested to learn that CF/CNS has introduced, feature-pricing reform, too. For example, instead of paying the feature rate for (a newspaper of) circulation of 20,000-50,000 twice for two newspapers having circulation barely above 20,000 apiece, your group pays only once.
Please contact: Continental Features/ Continental News Service, 501 W. Broadway, Suite A, PMB# 265, San Diego, CA 92101 (858) 492-8696. E-mail: info@continentalnewsservice.com