Author: News Desk

Every so often, my gaze will shift from politics to other topics. The most recent example occurred when I delved into the life and career of Milt Gross, one of America’s finest “screwball” cartoonists. While many contemporary readers may be unfamiliar with his body of work, this is a cartoonist that made us laugh and deserves to be remembered. So, let’s step back from loonie politics and study the essence of screwball comics! Gross and his screwball contemporaries – Rube Goldberg (Boob McNutt), George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Frederick Burr Opper (Happy Hooligan) and E.C. Segar (Thimble Theatre), among others –…