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cartoonmonarchotto soglow &the little king

edited by Dean MullaneyIntroduction byJared Gardner

foreword by Ivan Brunetti


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SOURCES: Page 1: Tabletop drawing for Fred Waring. The famous bandleader was a notedcomics fanstarting in 1948 and for the next twenty-five years he hosted members of theNational Cartoonists Society at his Pennsylvania golf resort, Shawnee Inn & Country Club. Hisextensive collection of cartoonist specialty drawings are held at Penn State. Page 2: Promotionalphotograph of Otto Soglow drawing The Ambassador, 1933. Title page: Decoration for thedustjacket of the 1933 Little Kingcollection. Page 432: Drawing for Fred Waring, early 1950s.Front endpaper: Modified panel from the March 16, 1941 Sunday. Back endpaper:An early1930s New Yorkercartoon which Soglow re-used as the basis for the May 20, 1951 Sunday (s eepage 281). Front dustjacket image: Promotional drawing for the Famous Artists School. Backdustjacket image: Detail from the June 27, 1948 Sunday, which in turn was recycled from a NewYorkercartoon. Back dustjacket flap: Self-caricature from the catalogue for Meet the Artist, anexhibit of self portraits by American artists held at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, 1943.

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Jared GardnerFOREWORD

Ivan Brunetti

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Special thanks to Randy Scott and the ComicArt Collection at Michigan State Universityfor providing most of the artwork in the

volume. Thanks also to The Ohio StateUniversity Billy Ireland Cartoon Library andMuseums Milton Caniff Collection, SanFrancisco Academy of Comic Art Collection,and the Toni Mendez Collection for additionalartwork and photographs; and to TimothyBabcock, Cordinator of Fred Warings

America, at Penn State University.

Additional thanks to Jackson Glassey forscanning assistance and to Justin Eisingerand Alonzo Simon for proofreading andcoordination. For providing materialand advice, our appreciation to SteveStanchfield, Chris Buchman, Rex Schneider,and Thunderbean Animation; Jeet Heer;Heather Winter of Hakes Americana and

Collectibles; Jeff Vaughn; and Rob Stolzer.

ISBN: 978-1-61377-148-8First Printing, March 2012

Distributed by DiamondBook Distributors1-410-560-7100

Copyright 2012 King Features Syndicate. Hearst Holdings, Inc.

The IDW logo is a registered trademark of Idea and Design Works, LLC. The Library ofAmerican Comics is a trademark of The Library of American Comics, LLC. All rights reserved.Foreword 2012 Ivan Brunetti. Introduction 2012 Jared Gardner. Cartoons on pages 16-18 2012 Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. With the exception of artwork used for reviewpurposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission ofthe publisher. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, electronic ormechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information and retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in Korea.


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THIS PAGE: Two early Little King cartoons originally in The New Yorkerand gatheredby Soglow in a 1933 collection.

OPPOSITE: Two more entries in the Manhole Series. Left to right: February 2, 1929 andAugust 3, 1929, and three examples of Soglows headers for The Talk of the Town.


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BOTH PAGES: These Little King cartoons Soglow published in The NewYorkerintroduce several gags he would return to time and again in thesyndicated newspaper stripsuch as the soap box orator (alwayspresenting a sympathetic take on protesters) and wind-blown hats.


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THIS PAGE: The tattoo gag on the top right, published inJudge, January 1930, is an early example of one of Soglowsrecurring themes in The Little King. The other cartoons were

published in Colliers.


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ABOVE: Covers to Soglows solobooks, Pretty Pictures(1930) andWasnt the Depression Terrible(1930), plus his cover for OgdenNashs Happy Days(1930).

LEFT: Two illustrations for NashsFour Prominent So-and-Sos(1934).


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OPPOSITE LEFT: Cover to Dumb-Belles Lettres(1933), a collection of a newspaper feature ofthe same name published in The Daily Mail.

OPPOSITE RIGHT: Two cartoons fromSoglows Confidential History of ModernEngland(1939).

OPPOSITE BOTTOM: Illustrations from

Recipes and Menus for Allergics(1939).

THIS PAGE (Clockwise from top left):Illustration from L'Affaire Jones, a novel byHillel Bernstein (1933); Its the Law(1933),a collection of a monthly feature in AmericanMagazine; an illustration from Fields forPresident(1940), a humorous campaignbook by noted film comedian W. C. Fields;the dustjacket forLiberated Latin (1951).


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