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. Stephen Kroninger provides some images of Soglow from various yearbooks in his collection.

Let's start with the Little King. Even he faces wartime censorship:

Otto Soglow
The Little King
The Dutch Treat Club 1940 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Soglow, in smoking jacket, has some serious reconstruction work to attend to:

Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1955 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Learning to appreciate fine art:

Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1959 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Surveying the political landscape:

—Here is my drawing for the Dutch Treat book. I don't know
what it means, but it's symbolical.  ...  Otto
Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1956 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

A mainstream Soglow self-portrait:

I remember when it rained like hell on April 23rd

O. Soglow

Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1952 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Another monumental female landscape:

Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1951 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

All hail:

"I'm a vegetarian myself[.]
Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1944 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

 Wartime wordplay:

Offense Terms
Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1941 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Can't stop watching:

Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1948-1949 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

End run:

Otto Soglow
The Dutch Treat Club 1947 yearbook

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Note:  My sincere thanks to Stephen Kroninger for providing these photos from his archive.

Otto Soglow, like all the people on Santa's list, can be naughty or nice. Either way, check it twice and then send along scans or snaps of original art or of obscure published work like that appearing in College Humor or the Dutch Treat Club yearbooks.


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