Wayback Weekend: Otto Soglow, Rose O’Neill, and Syd Hoff
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Otto Soglow’s New Yorker Spot Art
New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen waxes wonderfully over the magazine’s Otto Soglow spot art.
The New Yorker doesn’t easily let go of the old stuff. Recently, our copy department retired the hyphen we’d kept in “in-box” for longer than anyone should keep anything in an inbox. But “teen-ager” clings to its appropriately awkward hyphen, and “coöperation” retains its diaeresis. (Don’t call it an umlaut.) My favorite still functioning relics are two fat binders of “Talk spots”—hundreds of postage-stamp-size drawings that appear at the tops of Talk of the Town pieces, which the cartoonist Otto Soglow drew from 1926 to 1970, to illustrate stories in the section, and which have (mostly) been paired with new Talk pieces ever since.
Paul Trap uses today’s Thatababy for a graphic biography of 20th Century cartoonist Rose O’Neill.
More about Rose O’Neill from the Norman Rockwell Museum.
The All-New Syd Hoff
New website for SYD HOFF – prolific cartoonist for The New Yorker, Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, etc plus beloved children’s author of the classics Danny and the Dinosaur and Sammy the Seal.
Not to mention his radical A. Redfield alter ego.
The Syd Hoff website has been reconstructed! A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
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