Milt Gross was a well known Illustrator, Cartoonist and Author. Through the period of 1915 - 1950, Milt's work was of the "Old Style" of animation, where every drawing was a masterpiece of unique and colorful style.

Milt Gross worked for the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening Times as a political cartoonist. He created and sold his multi panel humor of cartoons to various magazines and publications nationwide. Milt Gross in later years, wrote, illustrated and published several " Comic" style books. These books are highly prized collector's items.

By the 1940's, Gross was a recognizable celebrity and was working on film scripts in Hollywood and a radio show based on That's My Pop!. His last book I Shouda Ate the Eclair was in 1946, in which Mr. Figgits nearly starts World War III because he refuses the chocolate eclair at his local cafe. While still somewhat in dialect, the ensuing years since Nice Baby have improved everyone's speech immensely. Also in 1946, Gross appears in a new comic book called Picture News. It only ran for ten issues, but Gross was in almost every issue. The illustration (left) shows the wild cartooning style and the lengths to which he would go to make a pun. The inspiration for the page? Probably a newspaper article on clothing from synthetic material.

In 1950, two earlier books were combined and given new life as Hiawatta and De Night in De Front From Chreesmas, just in time to introduce a new generation to his special brand of humor.
Gross died in 1953 from a heart attack after semi-retiring in 1945 from a first attack. His last book was Dear Dollink in 1945.
The vast majority of the personal information in this page was taken from The World Encyclopedia of Comics.