Is Diss a System?: A Milt Gross Comic Reader

by Ari Y. Kelman and Milt Gross

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814748236
• ISBN13: 9780814748237
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 8.5"