Question: Universal Press Syndicate merged with what company featuring a writer born December 8, 1961

Context articles: Paws, Inc.
Aaron McGruder
Cartoonists Remember 9/11
Universal Press Syndicate
News of the Weird
Ann Coulter
The Boondocks (comic strip)
Mark Parisi
Kerry Waghorn
Brainwaves (comic strip)

Paws, Inc. (also known as Paws Incorporated) is an American comic studio and production company.
 It was founded by an American cartoonist Jim Davis to support the "Garfield" series, comic strips and its licensing.
 It is located in Muncie, Indiana and has a staff of nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators.
 In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978-1993 from United Feature Syndicate.
 However, the original black and white daily strips and original color Sunday strips remain copyrighted to United Feature Syndicate.
 The full color daily strips and recolored Sunday strips are copyrighted to Paws as they are considered a different product.
 The strip is currently distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, however, rights for the strip remain with Paws, Inc.
Aaron Vincent McGruder (born May 29, 1974) is an American writer, lecturer, producer, screenwriter and cartoonist best known for writing and drawing "The Boondocks", a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip and its animated TV series adaptation for which he was the creator, executive producer, and head writer.
Cartoonists Remember 9/11 is a series of comic strips run on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
 It includes cartoonists from King Features Syndicate, Creators Syndicate, Tribune Media Services, Universal Press Syndicate and Washington Post Writers Group.
Universal Press Syndicate, a subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, was an independent press syndicate.
 It distributed lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips and other content.
 Popular columns include Dear Abby, Ann Coulter, Roger Ebert and News of the Weird.
 Founded in 1970, it was merged in July 2009 with Uclick (which published its comics on GoComics) to form Universal Uclick.
News of the Weird is a syndicated newspaper column once edited by Chuck Shepherd that collects bizarre news stories.
 It was created in 1988.
 s of 2006 , it is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate and published in more than 250 newspapers in the United States and Canada.
 As of July 2008, the daily internet column has merged with two other "weird" websites to form Weird Universe.
Ann Hart Coulter ( ; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.
 She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events.
The Boondocks was a daily syndicated comic strip written and originally drawn by Aaron McGruder that ran from 1996 to 2006.
 Created by McGruder in 1996 for Hitlist.com, an early online music website, it was printed in the monthly hip hop magazine "The Source" in 1997.
 As it gained popularity, the comic strip was picked up by the Universal Press Syndicate and made its national debut on April 19, 1999.
 A popular and controversial strip, "The Boondocks" satirizes African American culture and American politics as seen through the eyes of young, black radical Huey Freeman.
 McGruder's syndicate said it was among the biggest launches the company ever had.
Mark Parisi (born 1961) is the creator of "Off the Mark", a comic panel which began in 1987 and now appears in 100 newspapers, as well as on greeting cards, T-shirts, and more.
 "Off the Mark" is distributed daily by Universal Press Syndicate.
 Parisi's work is influenced by Charles Schulz, MAD Magazine and Gary Larson.
 Parisi has also said he admires the work of cartoonists Jim Meddick, Sergio Aragonés, and Garry Trudeau.
Kerry Waghorn (born January 10, 1947) is a syndicated caricaturist whose "Faces in the News" feature, established in 1977 by Chronicle Features ("San Francisco Chronicle") is a journalistic legend.
 He estimates that more than 9,000 of his images have been published since the early 1970s, including just about every prominent news, business and entertainment face over that span of history.
 During the many years he spent under the management of newspaper icon G. Stanleigh Arnold, the "Chronicle"' s Sunday and Features Editor, he refined his skills within a team that included Garry Trudeau ("Doonesbury"), Gary Larson ("The Far Side"), Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby), William Hamilton (of "The New Yorker"), Phil Frank ("Farley"), and Cathy Guisewite ("Cathy").
 Arnold had also been instrumental in the early stages of Charles Schulz' ("Peanuts") career.
 Waghorn, who resides in West Vancouver, B.C., is currently represented by Universal Press Syndicate of Kansas City, MO, and he continues to create about three new caricatures a week.
 Universal, a subsidiary of Jim Andrews and John McMeel's Andrews McMeel Universal, founded in 1970, purchased Chronicle Features in 1997.
Brainwaves is a single-panel cartoon series by Betsy Streeter, a cartoonist and writer who resides in Northern California, USA.
 "Brainwaves" began in 1993 as single cartoons published by King Features Syndicate through their feature, "The New Breed."
 After that, "Brainwaves" began to appear in numerous books and periodicals including the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia.
 For a time "Brainwaves" was syndicated online by the Universal Press Syndicate on its GoComics site.
 Many "Brainwaves" cartoons are currently available through the agency CartoonStock.com located in the United Kingdom.