Milt Gross
Toronto Daily Star, July 20 1936
I didn't get the joke until I saw that there was an apostrophe between the W and the h. Hoops, my dear!
Milt Gross (1895-1953) was an American cartoonist noted for his exaggerated style and Yiddish-inflected dialogue. He went into semi-retirement after suffering a heart attack in 1945. He suffered another attack in 1953 when returning from a Hawaiian vacation with his wife; this heart attack killed him. In his honour, the National Cartoonists Society established the Milt Gross Fund to help cartoonists who were down on their luck financially.
Created September 23, 2025.