{"id":22885,"date":"2016-12-23T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22885"},"modified":"2016-12-23T17:02:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T22:02:01","slug":"happy-116th-birthday-otto-soglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/23\/happy-116th-birthday-otto-soglow\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 116th birthday, Otto Soglow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Soglow\">Otto Soglow<\/a>, whose comic strip <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Little_King\"><em>The Little King<\/em><\/a> ran for 40 years and entertained me when I was a kid, was born December 23, 1900&#8212;though I wasn&#8217;t to meet him until April 23, 1973 at that year&#8217;s Reuben Awards banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria.  Which was apt, since he was a  co-founder of the National Cartoonists Society, host for that event.<\/p>\n<p>Annoying kid with a sketchpad that I was, I wheedled sketches out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/07\/21\/happy-birthday-garry-trudeau\/\">Garry Trudeau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/02\/19\/happy-birthday-curt-swan\/\">Curt Swan<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2014\/03\/09\/happy-91st-birthday-paul-fung-jr\/\">Paul Fung, Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2015\/11\/01\/it-was-72-years-ago-today\/\">Roy Crane<\/a> &#8230; and, of course, Soglow as well, who drew for me the famous character whose newspaper strip he would continue to create until his death in 1975.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LittleKingOttoSoglow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LittleKingOttoSoglow-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LittleKingOttoSoglow-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LittleKingOttoSoglow-768x916.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LittleKingOttoSoglow-858x1024.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no special memories of that encounter, only this wonderful souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>But happy birthday! And thanks for making me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otto Soglow, whose comic strip The Little King ran for 40 years and entertained me when I was a kid, was born December 23, 1900&#8212;though I wasn&#8217;t to meet him until April 23, 1973 at that year&#8217;s Reuben Awards banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria. Which was apt, since he was a co-founder of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,783,784],"class_list":["post-22885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-otto-soglow","tag-reuben-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22895,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22885\/revisions\/22895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}