Emma Allen On Otto Soglow’s “Spot” Drawings
From The New Yorker, December 22, 2025, “Emma Allen On Otto Soglow’s Spot Art”
Ms. Allen has been the magazine’s cartoon editor since May of 2017.
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Otto Soglow’s A-Z Entry:
Otto Soglow Born, Yorkville, NY, December 23, 1900. Died in NYC, April 1975. New Yorker work: 1925 -1974.Key collections: Pretty Pictures ( Farrar & Rinehart, 1931) and for fans of Soglow’s Little King; The Little King (Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) and The Little King ( John Martin’s House, Inc., 1945). The latter Little King is an illustrated storybook. Cartoon Monarch / Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW, 2012) is an excellent compendium.
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Another West Coasters Photo
Here’s a similar photo to one posted yesterday of the West Coasters panel. Today’s, which appeared on cartoonist Kate Isenberg’s Instagram, includes Mike Twohy (far right), who was missing from yesterday’s photo.
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Book On The Horizon
It’s a long way away from the pub date, but here’s the cover for the October 2026 joint venture by Roz Chast and J.A.K..
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Stephen Nadler Gets His Copies
Stephen Nadler, of Attempted Bloggery fame, brings us a follow-up to his hunt for a copy of the New Yorker containing his in-the-running caption in The New Yorker‘s caption contest of December 8, 2025.
Spoiler Alert! It ends well.