Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Pepsi-Cola

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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