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The Society Pages: Otto Soglow in College Humor, October 1937
Otto Soglow's satirical cartoon from the October 1937 issue of College Humor shows us high society at play. All the "photographed" couples are having an absolutely fabulous time—with one notable...
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A Turkey for Macy's
On the eve of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a turkey balloon sits perched on the 34th Street entrance of Macy's Herald Square.Macy's flagship New York storeNovember 22, 2017Photograph courtesy of...
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Bil Baird's College Humor Covers
The balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were originally created by puppeteer and illustrator Tony Sarg (1880-1942). The young puppeteer Bil Baird (1904-1987) went to work for him in 1928,...
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Today's Walk in the Woods
It's autumn in the woods.Someone's been decorating:What's this?02377
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Mind Control: Otto Soglow in College Humor, February 1938
In Otto Soglow's four-panel gag cartoon from the February 1938 issue of College Humor, it's all about mind over matter. The cartoon suffers from devoting the right two-thirds of each panel to an...
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Otto Soglow: V for Victory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64nOQ7zAMwOn July 19, 1941, the "V for Victory" campaign was embraced by Winston Churchill. It rapidly took hold in the United States as well, even before Pearl Harbor....
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Otto Soglow: In Search of the Still Life Class
An original cartoon by Otto Soglow (1900-1975) was offered for sale last year at Burchard Galleries in St. Petersburg. The work is inscribed by Mr. Soglow "With best wishes to Chris." Christian...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #594
Autumn comes to the Caption Contest. Here is my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #594 for November 27, 2017. The drawing is by Maggie Lawson. "It's so cute when nature lovers dress like...
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Sight Unseen: An Otto Soglow Erotic Drawing
When I gamble, I don't need to go to a casino; I go to an online bookseller and buy something I can't examine. The gamble is that a bookseller who won't go to the trouble of providing a photo will...
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An Otto Soglow Alphabet
An important feature of the Dutch Treat Club yearbooks was the membership directory. In the Fortieth Anniversary of The Dutch Treat Club, the 1945 yearbook's directory has letter illustrations by the...
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Otto Soglow Cannibal Caricatures
Racial caricature was pervasive in American print through the first half of the twentieth century and beyond. An advertisement illustrated by Otto Soglow from late in 1956 is shocking today in it's...
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Otto Soglow: Secret Papers of the Dutch Treat Club
Artwork by Otto Soglow, creator of the Little King, depicts the cartoonist seeking inspiration to create a page in the Dutch Treat Club's racy yearbook. He appears morose at the outset, then settles on...
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The Uncensored Otto Soglow
Censored mail. Monumental female nudes. A mishap in the art museum. Cartoonist Otto Soglow, creator of the Little King, doesn't hold back anything when he's drawing for the Dutch Treat Club yearbooks....
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The Reconversion of Otto Soglow
The theme of the 1946 Dutch Treat Club yearbook was Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal: The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club. The yearbook had section headings...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #595
Give a nice warm hug to my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #595 for December 4, 2017. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich."Don't give him anything on layaway."Note: Last week cartoonist...
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The 1946 Dutch Treat Show
If you were in town on November 9, 1946, you should have been at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom for the annual Dutch Treat Show. Directed by no less a Dutch Treat Club member than George Abbott,...
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Otto Soglow's Little King at the Dutch Treat Club
Otto Soglow's Little King got his start in the pages of The New Yorker. The character was so popular he was taken into newspaper syndication in 1934, where he remained throughout Soglow's lifetime. The...
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Dutch Treat Club Total Offense 1941
Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.—President Franklin D....
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Otto Soglow: 1974 Reuben Awards Dinner Program
What should we make of Otto Soglow's program cover for the National Cartoonists Society 1974 Reuben Awards Dinner? The dinner was held on April 22, 1974, with the program cover design capped by the arc...
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Christmas Greetings from John Held, Jr.
John Held, Jr., was hands-down the most popular illustrator of the 1920s. His flappers and their companions seemed to effortlessly embody the Jazz Age. But he also created a line of remarkable linoleum...
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