"An impeccably researched and well-presented collection”
- Richard Pound, The Comics Journal
"A fascinating close-up of a master developing a visual language for comedy and storytelling."
- Steve Smith, Panels & Prose
“Paul Tumey is one of today's most insightful comic art historians … I have been involved in the comic strip field for over 40 years and still learned so much from Tumey's history of Judge magazine in the book.”
- Rob Stolzer, Inkslingers
A lost chapter of comics history, restored and brought back to life. This first volume in an ambitious ongoing series collects every Judge comic and cartoon Milt Gross created between 1923–24—fully restored, annotated, and placed in context.
In these early works, Gross pushes himself to master pantomime storytelling, laying the foundation for his later breakthroughs. As Paul C. Tumey argues, this brief but explosive period captures the birth of Gross’s signature style: kinetic, inventive, and tightly controlled.
Featuring a foreword by Drew Lerman and a special contribution by Noah Van Sciver, this richly produced volume also includes a 60+ page supplements section with rare material and a complete run of Hitz and Mrs. A must-have for fans and a major contribution to comics scholarship.
All orders include a randomly selected archival postcard from the Erratic Press collection.
"An impeccably researched and well-presented collection”
- Richard Pound, The Comics Journal
"A fascinating close-up of a master developing a visual language for comedy and storytelling."
- Steve Smith, Panels & Prose
“Paul Tumey is one of today's most insightful comic art historians … I have been involved in the comic strip field for over 40 years and still learned so much from Tumey's history of Judge magazine in the book.”
- Rob Stolzer, Inkslingers
A lost chapter of comics history, restored and brought back to life. This first volume in an ambitious ongoing series collects every Judge comic and cartoon Milt Gross created between 1923–24—fully restored, annotated, and placed in context.
In these early works, Gross pushes himself to master pantomime storytelling, laying the foundation for his later breakthroughs. As Paul C. Tumey argues, this brief but explosive period captures the birth of Gross’s signature style: kinetic, inventive, and tightly controlled.
Featuring a foreword by Drew Lerman and a special contribution by Noah Van Sciver, this richly produced volume also includes a 60+ page supplements section with rare material and a complete run of Hitz and Mrs. A must-have for fans and a major contribution to comics scholarship.
All orders include a randomly selected archival postcard from the Erratic Press collection.