The Little King: Secret Passage
Date1947
Artist
Otto Soglow
(American illustrator and cartoonist, 1900–1975)
Illustration Citation"The Little King," by Otto Soglow, July 27, 1947, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 15 5/8 × 23 1/8 in. (39.7 × 58.7 cm)
Credit LineFound in collection
Object number1900-70
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOtto Soglow's The Little King was a comic strip that presented the daily life of a diminutive monarch who refuses to behave regally. His activities gleefully upset the expected order of his court, and the social order generally. Soglow's drawing style - especially for the absurdly rotund, apparently legless king - was characterized by both economy and exaggeration of line.
