Showing posts with label Milt Gross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milt Gross. Show all posts
All the comics are lovingly photographed from the old yellowed comic book paper of the original comics. The coloring looks totally natural against the off-white, pulpy-textured paper. The paper itself is very hefty and thick, so there is no bleed-thru or transparency of images. This is a solidly-built book, with a strong sewn binding. I will post a review of the biography and all the extras as soon as I get a chance to properly wallow around with this beautiful classic comics collection!
For more on Milt Gross:
A couple years ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthful of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans! |
John K. wrote a couple posts that really sum up all that is wonderful about Milt Gross. Check out his insightful and heartfelt articles on Milt Gross HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity ...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction
And here's John K's great tribute to Milt Gross HERE.
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The Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive has some super scans of Milt Gross newspaper comics like Count Screwloose and Dave's delicatessen HERE.
As long as we're on a Milt Gross roll, I thought I'd point out that my pal Chris Duffy has scanned his well-worn copy of Milt Gross Funnies #2! This story features Patsy Pancake and Chives the Penguin, and you can read the whole thing over at Chris' Comic Books Are Interesting blog!
A few years ago (in the pre-blogging days), Chris made a xerox photocopy of this story and mailed to me (yes, in the actual US Mail) just so I would have the pleasure of reading it. I just think it's so cool that we can now share with untold thousands of comics fans with less effort than it used took to take to mail it to one!
Here's another never-been-reprinted, scarcely-seen cartoon blast of brilliance from that Napoleon of nonsense, MILT GROSS! (Applause!!!)
This frenetic five-pager from 1948 was hidden in the back of issue #14 of ACG Comics "The Kilroys," which is otherwise just a run-of-the-mill teen comedy Archie-wanna-be. I gotta thank Eddie Trigueros for turning me on to this book. He was even nice enough to let me scan it, but like a doofus, I lost all the scans when I was resizing the images in Photoshop.
So I had to find the comic on eBay, and rescan my own copy. Good news is that these oddball funnybooks can be gotten online for not too much dough! I always try to find these golden-age cartoon and funny-animal comics in the worst condition possible. As long as they're readable, that's fine by me! I'd rather get four or five old crumbling comics for five bucks each than just one that's in more decent shape. Anyway, here are a few preview panels to get you warmed up...
There's no explanation for Harry the Hoople-Snake. He is what he is. It's a cartoon!
So after escaping the nuthouse, Count Screwloose ends up as a contestant on a radio quiz show...
What great crowds! Every face is hideously different. A real horror show for our hero.
WHAPPO! Man, I love the energy in this drawing below --
As usual, Count Screwloose escapes back IN to the Balmycrest Booby-Hatch where life is not so crazy!
The WHOLE five-page story is available to click on and download below.
Wow! The crowd LOVES it!
Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window. Enjoy!
Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window.
Fun + anarchy + cartooning genius = Milt Gross
A few months ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthfull of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans!
A few months ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthfull of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans!
John K. wrote a couple posts that really sum up all that is wonderful about Milt Gross. Check out his insightful and heartfelt articles on Milt Gross HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction
And the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive has some super scans of Milt Gross newspaper comics like Count Screwloose and Dave's delicatessen HERE.
UPDATE: There are a LOT more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERE
Here's a Count Screwloose comic book story that's been hidden away from most readers for the last 60 years. I found this loopy gem buried on pages 35-41 of a 1947 issue of ACG Comics' The Kilroys #5 (Many thanks to the original scanner, and to Aussie500 for posting many full issues of The Kilroys on http://goldenagecomics.co.uk ).
"Count Screwloose of Tooloose" was originally a newspaper Sunday page, starting its run in 1929. Count Screwloose was an inmate of an insane asylum, and in every he would escape and have frantically energetic encounters and adventures with the "outside world." Many years later, Milt Gross brought Screwloose back when he created brand new comic book stories for the American Comics Group (ACG).
At the end of each story, the Count would realize that life on the outside could be crazier than in the nuthouse, so he would break back in to the sanitarium where things more sane.
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Based on this totally cool house ad from the inside cover of Kilroys #3, these stories were done around the same time (1947) as the famous two-issue run of Milt Gross Funnies.
...looks more like "dang" than Gross!
For more info on Milt Gross and his comics,
see this article from Don Markstein's Toonopedia
...and for LOTS more quality scans of Milt Gross newspaper strips and more, be sure to check out THIS LINK to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. There are many many different entries with scans covering a huge chunk of his illustrious career!
More info on Milt Gross at Lambiek.net
Two GREAT loving articles on Milt Gross
by John K HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction
More info on Milt Gross at Lambiek.netTwo GREAT loving articles on Milt Gross
by John K HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction
UPDATE: I just posted another long-lost Count Screwloose Milt Gross comic book story from a 1948 issue of The Kilroys #14! Come take a look HERE or just CLICK on the picture of Harry the Hoople-Snake below!
Click HERE for the comic book scans archive
