Extremely rare vintage original signed sketch of his character Dave from "Dave's Delicatessen" in black fountain pen on a 3x4-inch tan card, dating to the early 1930s. In good condition, with a minute red ink stain to the left edge, perhaps left while the artist was signing the card on an art table. Remembered for his exaggerated style and Yiddish-inspired dialogue, Milt Gross was arguably one of the most original cartoonists, comic strip artists  and animators of the first half of the 20th Century. Among his beloved creations was Iggy from his "Count Screwloose of Tooloose" strip of 1929-1934-- an emotionally unstable pooch with a Napoleon complex who resides at the Nuttycrest Sanitarium alongside the titular Count, to whom he is madly devoted. Every time Screwloose manages to escape the asylum, he invariably finds the real world so much crazier that he opts to return.

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