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Otto Soglow
Otto Soglow (December 23, 1900 – April 3, 1975) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip ''The Little King ''The Little King'' is a 1930-1975 American gag-a-day comic strip created by Otto Soglow, telling its stories in a style using images and very few words, as in pantomime. Publication history Soglow's character first appeared on June 7, 1930, i ...''. Born in Yorkville, Manhattan, Soglow grew up in New York City, where he held various jobs as a teenager and made an unsuccessful effort to become an actor. His first job was painting designs on baby rattles. While studying with John French Sloan, John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York, his first cartoon was printed in 1919. Throughout the 1920s, his drawings were seen in numerous magazines. Soglow's artwork was published in ''New Masses'', ''New York World'', ''Collier's Weekly, Collier's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Judge (magazine), Judge'' and ''Life (magazine), Life''. He illustrated more tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkville, Manhattan
Yorkville is a neighborhood in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Its southern boundary is East 72nd Street, its northern East 96th Street, its western Third Avenue, and its eastern the East River. Yorkville is among the city's most affluent neighborhoods. Yorkville is part of Manhattan Community District 8, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10028, 10075, and 10128. It is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. History Early history Pre-colonization, Yorkville was an undeveloped area of forests and streams. In August 1776, George Washington stationed half of his Continental Army in Manhattan and the other half in Brooklyn. Many troops in the Yorkville area on Manhattan's Upper East Side were in defensive positions along the East River to protect a possible retreat off Long Island, and to inflict damage on invading land and sea British forces. Following their August 27 defeat in the Battle of Long Island, the Continentals implement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ambassador (comic Strip)
''The Ambassador'' was a short-lived newspaper comic strip created by Otto Soglow, which ran from May 28, 1933, to September 2, 1934. In 1931, Soglow introduced his Little King character in ''The New Yorker''. William Randolph Hearst was determined to see ''The Little King'' syndicated by his own King Features Syndicate, but contractual obligations prevented the transfer of the strip. Soglow solved the conflict by selling Hearst a temporary, nearly-identical strip: ''The Ambassador''. When Soglow's contract with ''The New Yorker'' expired in 1934, ''The Little King'' was able to immediately resume as a King Features Sunday strip on September 9 of that year, only a week after the final appearance in ''The New Yorker''. Having outlived its purpose, ''The Ambassador'' was cancelled. Characters and story A forerunner for the King's arrival in the form of an Ambassador, the same pantomime format was employed with similar situations in the characters and gags. Differences between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
