GROSS, Milt
(1895–1953)
GROSS, Milt (4 March 1895–28 November 1953). Gross was a cartoonist, famous in his time, with sufficient literary ambition to write a book-length narrative that had, as its title page boasted, “not a word in it—no music, too.” In a series of finely drawn pictures various in size (and thus structurally different from a standard cartoon strip), He Done Her Wrong (reprinted as Hearts of Gold) tells of a frontier trapper going into the woods to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend who, while…