Ebook: Is Diss a System? : a Milt Gross Comic Reader
Author: Gross Milt, Gross Milt, Kelman Ari Y
- Tags: Caricatures and cartoons -- United States. American wit and humor Pictorial. Jewish wit and humor Pictorial. Comic books strips etc. -- United States. Gross Milt -- 1895-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation. Fine Arts. Gross Milt -- 1895-1953. Caricatures and cartoons. Comic books strips etc. United States.
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: NYU Press
- City: New York, United States
- Language: English
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Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H.L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross' Read more...
Abstract: Milt Gross (1895-1953), a Bronx-born cartoonist and animator, first found fame in the late 1920s, writing comic strips and newspaper columns in the unmistakable accent of Jewish immigrants. By the end of the 1920s, Gross had become one of the most famous humorists in the United States, his work drawing praise from writers like H.L. Mencken and Constance Roarke, even while some of his Jewish colleagues found Gross' extreme renderings of Jewish accents to be more crass than comical. Working during the decline of vaudeville and the rise of the newspaper cartoon strip, Gross captured American hum