“The great American novel, and not a word in it- no music, too”

Milt Gross was well known to many newspaper readers in the 1920s, with comics like Banana Oil and Nize Baby that skewered hypocrisy and reveled in absurdity. In 1930, he tried his hand at the wordless novel, which had become popular after the success of Lynd Ward’s Gods’ Man (which you may recall from last year’s ). Gross’s He Done Her Wrong is in part a parody of Ward, replacing his dour woodcuts with a much sillier story. It joins the public domain in 39 days.

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I'm a digital library strategist at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
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