The Little King

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The Little King ( Little King ) is the most famous comic strip of the US comic artist Otto Soglow . Soglow received the Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society in 1966 for the often textless stories about a plump and nameless little king who likes to do without courtly etiquette .

Publication and adaptations

His first appearance was The Little King in 1931 in the newspaper The New Yorker . After William Randolph Hearst became aware of the comics, he tried to woo Soglow for his King Features Syndicate . Since Soglow was still contractually bound to The New Yorker , he drew a very similar strip for King Features called The Ambassador . On September 9, 1934, The Little King officially joined Hearst's Syndicate. The Little King ended with Soglow's death in 1975. The strip appeared only on Sunday pages.

In German-speaking countries, individual stories by The Little King appeared in the comic magazine Phantom in the 1950s . In the 1960s, The Little King was also featured in the short-lived series of magazines Blondie und Dankwart - Das Schmunzelmagazin from Walter Lehning Verlag . In addition, anthologies were published in 1976 by S. Fischer Verlag and 1978 by Rowohlt Verlag, each under the title Der kleine König . The Carlsen Verlag also published a volume with stories from The Little King in its series Comics - world-famous series of characters .

In the 1930s, several animated films appeared around the character of the little king; for example, in 1933 Christmas Night and in 1934 The Little King . In 1936 the seven-minute animated film Betty Boop and the Little King was released.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ winners on reuben.org (English), accessed on February 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Reuben Prize Winner on lfb.it (Italian), accessed on February 3, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 411.
  4. ^ A b c d Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 240.
  5. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 93.
  6. ↑ a b Otto Soglow on comicguide.de , accessed on February 3, 2015
  7. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: To be continued. Comic culture in Germany , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-548-36523-X , p. 163.
  8. ↑ Oscar E. Soglow in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on February 3, 2015
  9. ↑ Christmas Night in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on February 3, 2015
  10. ^ The Little King in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 3, 2015
  11. ^ Betty Boop and the Little King in the Internet Movie Database , accessed February 3, 2015