Comics: Milt Gross' Dave's Delicatessen

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Archive supporter, Marc Deckter stopped by today with a pile of deteriorating Milt Gross Dave's Delicatessen dalies. The newsprint had become brittle and brown and the strips were fragmenting into chips. I put them carefully on the scanner and digitized them before they had a chance to turn to dust.


Milt Gross is one of the underappreciated cartoonists that the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is dedicated to documenting. Between these wonderful early examples courtesy of Marc Deckter, the Sunday pages lent to us by Mark Kausler and the great book A Cartoon Tour of New York from Kent Butterworth, our collection of Gross is second to none. If you haven't seen any of our previous articles on Gross, check out the links at the end of this post.

And as I always say... if you're one of those folks who don't click on the images because you don't think it's worth the time it takes to read... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING!



























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For more Milt Gross Sunday pages, see... Milt Gross Sunday Pages Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. Also see... Milt Gross' Cartoon Tour Of New York Part One, Part Two and Part Three; Chic Young's Blondie, Rube Goldberg's Side Show; George Lichty's Grin and Bear It, Cliff Sterrett's Polly & Her Pals Part One, Part Two and Part Three; and Harrison Cady's Birds' Eye Views

Many thanks to Marc Deckter for sharing this wonderful stuff with us!

Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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