“Ideas For Cartoons Must Caught As They Come”…who ever thought that such wisdom about pursuing this wacky cartoonist life would be found in a 1946 ad for Scripto Pencils. Bonus: the one-and-only Otto Soglow is featured. The idea of catching ideas and writing them down (or recording them) as they come is great advice. No one asked, but my own thinking — something that has worked for me, and continues to be helpful — includes this: Show up. It means making yourself available to catch those ideas as they come.
Mr. Soglow’s Spill 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.