Here's a little 1943 comic strip ad from Pepsi. Nurse and police
man are chatting it up when unseen miscreant shouts "Pepsi Cola!" and
suddenly the hideously deformed Baby Sluggo springs from the carriage like
something out of Rosemary's Baby. Ha-ha,
oh how I do want a Pepsi now.
The O. Soglow who penned this strip is noted cartoonist Otto
Soglow, creator of The Little King
which first appeared in the New Yorker in
1931 and ran as a strip from 1934 through Soglow's death in 1975. Soglow
co-founded the National Cartoonists
Society, a group of cartoonists who originally got together for the purpose
of entertaining the troops during World War II and continues to present awards
for extraordinary cartoonists to this day.
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