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Milt Gross ( / ɡroʊs /; March 4, 1895 – November 29, 1953) was an American cartoonist and animator. His work is noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish -inflected English dialogue. He originated the non-sequitur "Banana Oil!" as a phrase deflating pomposity and posing.
Milt Gross: A Cartoonist’s Cartoonist. His trademark irreverence and devil-may-care American absurdism suggest that his work will continue to be fresh for centuries. By Françoise Mouly and...
Comic art by Milt Gross. After serving in World War I, Milt Gross went on to produce strips like 'Frenchy', 'Banana Oil' and 'Help Wanted', but his big break came with 'Gross Exaggerations', a weekly column of prose and cartoons.
Gross Exaggerations gives us a comprehensive sense of what Milt Gross was about. We get 47 Nize Baby s, 31 Count Screwloose of Toulouse s and 44 Dave’s Delicatessen s, cherry-picked from eight years of Sunday comics and reproduced larger than they’ve been seen since their original publication.
Gross, a 20th-century artist, animator, and screenwriter who was best-known for manic characters that mixed English with Yiddish-sounding malapropisms, was behind several newspaper strips...
Most people probably don't know who Milt Gross is, but in the 1920s and 1930s he was a cartoonist beloved by millions for his zany, frenetic comic strips and was hailed as "America's Great...
Three or four generations ago, humorist Milt Gross was so famous that to avoid him and his work would have been almost impossible — especially for Jewish readers, some of whom must have winced,...
