{"id":152,"date":"2006-04-30T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T03:14:23","slug":"milt-grosss-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/30\/milt-grosss-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Milt Gross&#8217;s New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<table Align=left>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gross.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/gross.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Over at the worthy project known as the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, Steve Worth has been posting a <a \" href=\"http:\/\/www.animationarchive.org\/2006\/04\/media-milt-gross-cartoon-tour-of-new.html\">digital replica of That&#8217;s My Pop Goes Nuts For Fair<\/a>, a spectacular Milt Gross book, published for the 1939 World&#8217;s Fair, which lovingly documents New York City as it was&#8230;or at least as it was as seen via the unique perspective of Milt Gross. (The drawings are like a whacked-out east-coast version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talamasca.com\/~cuccia\/photos\/coit\/coit-gifs\/citylife.html\">San Francisco&#8217;s amazing Coit Tower murals<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge Gross fan, but I&#8217;d never even heard of this publication. It&#8217;s nice to be reminded once again that there are still obscure-but-first-rate works by great cartoonists of the past out there for us to rediscover.<\/p>\n<p>The A-HAA blog has tons of other stuff worthy of your attention, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animationarchive.org\/2006\/04\/biography-john-k-interviews-bill-joe.html\">John Kricfalusi&#8217;s interview with Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, and Friz Freleng<\/a>, excellently illustrated with art and entire cartoons referenced by the interviewees. Don&#8217;t visit it when you have any pressing deadlines&#8230;but <em>do<\/em> visit it.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\">The Comics Journal.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the worthy project known as the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, Steve Worth has been posting a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}