In your website, you stated that the feature Napoleon was syndicated by McNaught. In fact, it was syndicated throughout the life of its author, Cliff McBride, by Lafave Newspaper Features, a small syndicage run by my father, Arthur J. Lafave.
My father had been a salesman for McNaught, and McBride had had some cartoons syndicated by McNaught. On his first sales trip to the west coast, my father met McBride and saw the samples for a daily feature under the title of Napoleon (or perhaps Napoleon and Uncle Elby). He urged McNaught to take the feature on, but they were uninterested in further dealings with McBride, who had a history of missing deadlines.
With the permission of Charley McAdam, my father resigned from the McNaught Syndicate and took on the feature himself.
I grew up with the syndicate business all around me and saw plenty of evidence of broken deadlines and how people have to rush around as a result.
Jay Lafave
