Showing posts with label That's Washington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label That's Washington. Show all posts

Saturday, January 04, 2020

The King of Cartooning

Saturday Leftover Day.

Pictorial Review was a Sunday Magazine Section filled and distributed by King Features. Rather than doing it as an imitation family or ladies magazine (such as This Week or Parade), this was more of a vehicle for a selection of columns (from people such as Hedda Hopper) and other journalistic features. All of the columns were illustrated, some even by big name cartoonists, such as Milt Gross, Virgil Partch, Ralph Stein and Colin Allen. That's Washington was written by George Dixon and illustrated by Otto Soglow, the modernist cartoonist who made it big with The Little King. With up to three cartoons per page, he was able to show more of his range in this feature.

I have shown some of these pages before, although most of those were from online sources (with the text barely readable). But I got a large set of these sections this year and was able to scan these myself. I would love to see a collection of the best of these columns, but I guess I am one of a few people left actually interested in the old cartoonists.