The Art of Milt Gross Vol. One: Mastering Cartoon Pantomime-Judge 1923-24
by: Milt Gross (Author), Paul C. Tumey (Editor), Drew Lerman (Foreword)

Softcover. Mount Vernon WA, Erratic Press, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages, illustrated in b&w. In 1923, while re-establishing himself on the staff of The New York World, Milt Gross quietly broke into the slick weekly humor magazines--and produced dozens of superb, densely-packed, wildly inventive pages for Judge. During this period, he set himself a bold challenge: mastering the demanding craft of pantomime comics. As Paul C. Tumey argues in the accompanying essay, "Gradually, Milt Gross," this short but explosive era played a crucial role in Gross's evolution and paved the way for his breakthrough hits just a few years later. Before Nize Baby, before Count Screwloose, before He Done Her Wrong--Milt Gross was already revolutionizing humor on the printed page. Many of his funniest ideas first appeared in these Judge pages, only to be re-imagined later in his newspaper work and key sequences of his celebrated 1930 graphic novel.