Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Art

Emma Allen on Otto Soglow’s Spot Art

The cartoon editor revisits the drawings used to illustrate Talk of the Town pieces, by the creator of the comic strip “The Little King.”

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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” […]

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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.   ____________________ 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; Th…