Soglow was born in Manhattan in 1900, and pretty much never left. He wanted to be an actor but settled for being a cartoonist, and was best known for his syndicated comic “The Little King,” a wordless strip about a rotund, charmingly immature monarch. Soglow’s first New Yorker cartoon was published nine months into the magazine’s existence, and his increasingly spare aesthetic, which eschewed text and favored a clean, elegant line, was a harbinger of a style that became immensely popular.