Otto Soglow (December 23, 1900-April 3, 1975) American cartoonist best known for
his comic strip The Little King. Born in Yorkville, Manhattan, Soglow studied
with John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York. He published his first
cartoon in 1919 and throughout the 1920s he published them in numerous
magazines. Most notably he was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, where
his character The Little King first appeared in 1931. William Randolph Hearst
lured Soglow away for his King Features Syndicate, but contractual obligations
to The New Yorker prevented The Little King from appearing immediately, so
Soglow produced a knock-off strip called The Ambassador from 1933 to 1934. The
Little King debuted on September 9, 1934 and ran until Soglow's death in 1975.
From 1934 onward, 'The Little King' ran as a newspaper strip,
gaining popularity in the U.S. and eventually appearing all over the world. In
Europe, Willy Vandersteen
was one of Soglow's great admirers. Soglow was a co-founder of the
National Cartoonists Society, and continued
to draw The Little King until his death in 1975.
We All Go Soglow
Otto Soglow is one of my favorite cartoonists. I don't know when I first
saw his work but I seem to have fond memories of reading his Little
King in one form or another. Since I was too young to have seen it
in its orginal incarnation in The New Yorker magazine, or
even later as a newspaper strip, it's possible I came across it as a comic
book or - most likely - in a collection of strip reprints like the
Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics.
Soglow used a fairly static line and almost geometric forms to create
flat, iconic imagery. This sort of "crude" cartoon-drawing language has
always attracted me, and many of my favorite cartoonists - Ernie Bushmiller,
Richard McGuire, Chirs Ware - seem to approach their work similarly. Mark
Newgarden, another cartoonist I'm crazy about, was directly inspired by the
Soglow's Little King to create his own mute troublemaker,
the Little Nun.
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975.
L'Affaire Jones : a novel / by Hillel Bernstein. -- New
York : Literary Guild of America, 1933. -- 257 p. : ill. ;
20 cm. -- Endpapers and frontispiece by O. Soglow.
I. Bernstein, Hillel. II. Soglow, Otto, 1900- III. Literary
Guild of America. Call no.: PS3503.E68A68 1933
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Contribution (p. 158) to Commercial Art, a Complete Guide
to Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning and Painting / Gene
Byrnes (New York : Simon and Schuster, 1952). -- Call no.:
NC650.B9 1952
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Contribution (p. 14, 22, 48, 76, 93, 112) in I Meet Such
People! a Careful Collection of More than 200 Carefree
Cartoons / ed. by Gurney Williams (New York : Farrar,
Straus and Company, 1946). -- Call no.: NC1428.C66 1946
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975.
Dumb Belles-Lettres : Lapaloozas from the Morning Mail / by
Juliet Lowell ; illustrated by Soglow. -- New York : Simon
and Schuster, 1933. -- 127 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. -- Call no.:
PN6161.L6 1935
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Everything's Rosy / O. Soglow. -- New York : Farrar &
Rinehart, Inc., 1932 -- 54 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. -- "The
envelope in the front of the book contans one red filter to
bring out a double exposure of each picture."
I. Soglow, Otto, 1900- II. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Call
no.: NC1429.S558 1932
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Excuse It, Please! / Cornelia Otis Skinner ; illustrated by
O. Soglow. -- New York : Dood, Mead & Company, 1940. -- 225
p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
I. Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901- II. Soglow, Otto, 1900-
Call no.: PS3537.K533E9
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The Fabulous Funnies [sound recording] -- on 1 sound tape
reel (50 min.) ; 3 3/4 i.p.s, mono. ; 7 in. ; 1/4 in. tape.
-- Broadcast on ABC-TV, January 24, 1978. -- Voices of
Chester Gould, Dik Browne, Milt Caniff, Al Capp, Bob Dunn,
Fred Lasswell, Chic Young, Otto Soglow, Charles Schulz,
Mort Walker, Leonard Starr, Hal Foster, Rube Goldberg,
Jerry Robinson, Burns and Shriver, and Fiorello La Guardia,
participants ; Carl Reiner, host. -- Call no.: Voice
Library M100 bd.1
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Happy Days / Ogden Nash ; illustrated by Soglow. -- New
York : Simon and Schuster, 1933. -- 161 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
-- Music: p. 77-91.
I. Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971. II. Soglow, Otto, 1900- Call
no.: PS3527.A637H2 1933
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It's the Law / by Dick Hyman ; foreword by Arthur "Bugs"
Baer ; illustrations by O. Soglow. -- Philadelphia : David
McKay, 1936. -- 120 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. -- "Many of the
drawings have appeared in the American Magazine in which
'It's the Law' is a monthly feature."
1. Law--United States--Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. I.
Hyman, Dick, 1904- II. Soglow, Otto, 1900- Call no.:
K5.5.H9 1936
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Liberated Latin / by Dick Shaw ; illustrated by O. Soglow.
-- Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1951. -- unpaged : ill. ;
21 cm.
1. Latin language--Caricatures and cartoons. I. Shaw, Dick.
II. Soglow, Otto, 1900- Call no.: PA2088.A7 1951
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The Little King / by O. Soglow. -- New York : Farrar &
Rinehart, 1933. -- 67 p. : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
I. Soglow, Otto, 1900- Call no.: NC1429.S559
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"Otto and the King & Gus : Otto Soglow's Travelin' Gus" /
by R.C. Harvey. p. 110-123 in Hogan's Alley, no. 9 (=v. 3,
no. 1) (Summer 2001). -- Harvey provides a one-page
introduction to 13 pages of Travelin' Gus, a 1946 silent
strip about a streetcar driver. -- Call no.: PN6700.H6no.9
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975.
Pretty Pictures / O. Soglow. -- New York : Farrar &
Rinehart, 1931. -- 93 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
I. Soglow, Otto, 1900- Call no.: NC1429f.S56
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Soglow's "Confidential" History of Modern England. -- New
York : F.A. Stokes, 1939. -- 87 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
I. Soglow, Otto, 1900- II. Confidential History of Modern
England. Call no.: NC1429.S56C6 1939
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Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera : a
fascinating trip to the interior / personally conducted by
George S. Chappell ; with an introduction by Robert
Benchley ; fully illustrated by O. Soglow. -- New ed. --
New York : Dover, 1963. -- 114 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. -- (Dover
Books ; T376)
I. Chappell, George Shepard, 1877- II. Soglow, Otto, 1900-
III. Benchley, Robert. IV. Series. Call no.: PS3505.H44T5
1963
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Wasn't the Depression Terrible? / by O. Soglow and David G.
Plotkin. -- New York : Covici, Friede, 1934. -- 104 p. :
ill. ; 31 cm. -- Call no.: NC1429.S56 W3 1934
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Biographical entry (p. 188) in The Great American Comic
Strip, by Judith O'Sullivan (Boston : Little, Brown and
Company, 1990). -- Call no.: folio PN6725 .O75 1990
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Comics and their Creators / edited by Gary Usher. --
Glenwood, IA : Gary Usher, 1992? -- 40 p. : ill., ports. ;
12 x 28 cm. -- Compiled in photocopy from the weekly
Literary Digest from Nov. 25, 1933 to June 15, 1935. Each
page includes a biographical sketch, photographic portrait
and sample drawing. -- Contents: H.T. Webster ; Rube
Goldberg ; Frank O. King ; Gene Byrnes ; Frank H. Willard ;
J. Carver Pusey ; Billy De Beck ; Fontaine Fox ; Harold
Gray ; George McManus ; Fred Locher ; Russ Westover ; Jimmy
Murphy ; Gene Ahern ; Cliff Sterrett ; Jim Williams ;
Vincent Hamlin ; Roy Crane ; O. Soglow ; Percy L. Crosby ;
Ernie Bushmiller ; Carl Ed ; Johnny Gruelle ; Dow Walling ;
Ham Fisher ; Harrison Cady ; Bill Conselman ; Weare
Holbrook ; Frank Fogarty ; Edgar E. Martin ; Milt Gross ;
Bil Dwyer ; Robert M. Brinkerhoff ; George Herriman ; E.C.
Segar ; Vic Forsythe ; Merrill Blosser ; James Swinnerton.
-- Call no.: PN6725.C598 1992
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975 --Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 46) in Diccionario Básico del Cómic, by Federico
López Socasau (Madrid : Acento Editorial, 1998). -- Call
no.: PN6707.L6 1998
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 583) in Dictionnaire Mondial de la Bande
Dessinée, by Patrick Gaumer, Claude Moliterni (Paris :
Larousse, 1997). Call no.: PN6707.G39 1997
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 154) in The National Cartoonists Society Album
1965, ed. by Mort Walker (New York : NCS, 1965). -- Call
no.: NC1300.N3 1965
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 156) in The National Cartoonists Society Album
1972-77 ed., compiled by Mort Walker (New York : NCS,
1972). -- Call no.: NC1300.N3 1972
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 144) in The National Cartoonists Society Album
1980 ed., compiled by Charles Green and Mort Walker (New
York : NCS, 1980). -- Call no.: NC1300.N3 1980
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 261) in The National Cartoonists Society Album
1988 ed., compiled by Mort Walker and Bill Janocha (New
York : NCS, 1988). -- Call no.: NC1300.N3 1988
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 372) in The National Cartoonists Society Album
1996 ed., edited by Bill Janocha (New York : NCS, 1996). --
Call no.: NC1300.N3 1996
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Entry (p. 39, 64) in Index of Artists in The New Yorker
Book of Dog Cartoons (New York : Knopf, 1995). -- Call no.:
NC1428.N473 1995
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 97) in Animals, Animals, Animals : a
collection of great animal cartoons (New York : Harper &
Row, 1979) -- Call no.: NC1426.A5 1979
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Index entry (p. 103, 105, 201, 216, 225, 228-231, 239, 256,
284-285, 310, 358-359, 376, 385, 394, 402-403, 445) in
Cartoon Cavalcade, edited by Thomas Craven (New York :
Simon and Schuster, 1943). Call no.: NC1426.C7
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Index entry to Cartoonist Profiles, no. 26 (June 1975), p.
60-62 -- Data from R.C. Harvey. Call no.: NC1300.C35no.26
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 130) in The Classic Cartoons (Cleveland :
World, 1966). -- Call no.: NC1320.C56
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 125, 235, 286-287, ill. 130, 236, 286) in
Comic Art in America, by Stephen D. Becker (New York :
Simon and Schuster, 1959). Call no.: NC1420.B4
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 323) in The Comics, by Coulton Waugh
(Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1991,
originally published 1947). -- Call no.: PN6725.W36 1991
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 93) in Comics, vom Massenblatt ins
multimediale Abenteuer, by Andreas C. Knigge (Reinbeck bei
Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1996). -- Call no.: PN6710.K53 1996
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 27) in Dangerous Drawings, ed. by Andrea
Juno (New York : Juno Books, 1997). -- Call no.:
PN6725.D245 1997
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 233-234) in The Encyclopedia of American
Comics, ed. by Ron Goulart (New York : Facts on File,
1990). Call no.: PN6725.E64 1990
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 30, 89, 238) in Encyclopédie des bandes
dessinées / ed. Marjorie Alessandrini. Nouv. ed. (Paris : A
Michel, 1986) Call no.: PN6707.E5 1986
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 85) to The Fleischer Story / by Leslie
Cabarga (New York : Nostalgia Press, 1976) -- Data from Don
Markstein. Call no.: NC1766.U52F593
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 130) in The Funnies, 100 Years of American
Comic Strips, by Ron Goulart (Holbrook, Mass. : Adams
Publishing, 1995). -- Call no.: PN6725.G62 1995
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 17, 188) in The Great American Comic Strip,
by Judith O'Sullivan (Boston : Little, Brown and Company,
1990). -- Call no.: folio PN6725 .O75 1990
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 63, 338, 483, 1178) in Historia de los
Comics / J. Toutain, J. Coma (Barcelona : Toutain,
1982-1984?) -- Call no.: PN6710.H5 1982a
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 246) in A History of American Graphic
Humor, v. 2 (1865-1938), by William Murrell (New York :
Macmillan Company for the Whitney Museum of American Art,
1938). -- Call no.: NC1420.M8v.2
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 73) in A History of the Comic Strip, by
Pierre Couperie, et al. (New York : Crown Publishers,
1968). -- Call no.: NC1355.B28513
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 35) in Over 50 Years of American Comic
Books, by Ron Goulart (Lincolnwood, Ill. : Mallard Press,
1991). -- Call no.: PN6725.G636 1991
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 420) in Puros Cuentos II, 1934-1950 / Juan
Manuel Aurrecoechea, Armando Bartra (México, D.F.:
Grijalbo, 1993) Call no.: PN6790.M4A8 1988 t.2
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 37) in Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic
Books (Chicago : Contemporary Books, 1986). Call no.:
PN6725.G635 1986
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 18) in Système de la Bande Dessinée, by
Thierry Groensteen (Paris : Presses Universitaires de
France, 1999). -- Call no.: PN6714.G76 1999
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 290, 318, 361) in The World Encyclopedia of
Cartoons, ed. by Maurice Horn (Detroit : Gale Research,
1980). Call no.: NC1325.W67 1980
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Soglow, Otto, 1900-1975--Miscellanea.
Index entry (p. 41, 627-628, 456, ill. 457) in The World
Encyclopedia of Comics, ed. by Maurice Horn (New York :
Chelsea House, 1976). Call no.: PN6710.W6 1976
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"The Little King" / par Edouard François. p. 36-39 in
Phénix, no. 33 (4e Trimestre 1973). -- Article about the
Otto Soglow strip. -- Call no.: PN6745.P47no.33
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The Little King : file of clippings and miscellany. --
193?- . -- 1 portfolio : ill. ; 25 x 38 cm. -- Includes
material on Otto Soglow. -- Collected at Michigan State
University in the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture
Collection's Popular Culture Vertical File (PCVF).
1. Soglow, Otto, 1900-
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"Odds and Ends from the Editor's Valise" p. 57-59 in The
World of Comic Art, v. 1, no. 4 (Spring 1967). -- Among
other things, photographs of Dan Barry, Milton Caniff, Hal
Foster, Rube Goldberg and Otto Soglow.-- Call no.:
NC1426.W6v.1no.4
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"The Strippers Invade Madison Avenue" / David Folkman. p.
118-127 in Hogan's Alley, v. 2, no. 1 (=no. 5) (1998). --
Shows advertising strips or panels by Al Capp, Chic Young,
Dik Browne, Willard Mullin, Gladys Parker, Dr. Seuss,
Fontaine Fox, Bud Fisher, Raeburn Van Buren, Rudolph Dirks,
Otto Soglow, Charles Schulz, Rube Goldberg, Johnny Hart,
Chester Gould, George Wunder, and Marge. -- Call no.:
PN6700.H6no.5
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"The Write Stuff" p. 44-45 in Hogan's Alley, v. 2, no. 2
(=no. 6) (Winter 1999). -- Handwriting analyst Ilyas Zeshan
writes on handwriting samples (also shown) by F. Opper,
Dave Breger, Ham Fisher, and Otto Soglow. -- Call no.:
PN6700.H6no.6
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Soglow's "Confidential" History of Modern England. -- New York
: F.A. Stokes, 1939. -- 87 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
I. Soglow, Otto, 1900- II. Confidential History of Modern
England. Call no.: NC1429.S56C6 1939
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