Hello,
I was only able to find one image online from the strip "Count
Screwloose of Tooloose". It is the last image on the following
page:
http://www.lambiek.net/gross_m.htm
In an article on Milt Gross in the American National Biography
Online, Robert C. Harvey writes a short description of the comic
strip and its characters. Here's the URL (I won't quote here due
to copyright restrictions):
http://www.elmhurst.edu:8113/articles/16/16-00665.html
The following page at the Michigan State University Libraries'
Special Collections Division has a list of publications having to
do with Milt Gross. The page is _very_ long, so use the "Find in
Page" feature of your browser and search for "screwloose":
http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/crri/coun.htm
Among the resources listed on the above page are a couple of books
which look especially promising:
"100 Years of American Newspaper Comics : an Illustrated Encyclopedia"
According to the info on MSU's page, this book contains an entry
for the strip. Here is a link to Amazon.com where you can buy the
book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517124475/qid%3D1037287379/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-2900272-5987345
"Grossly Exaggerated : The Manic Worlds of Milt Gross"
This one actually contains reprints of the comic strip, according
to the MSU page.
I couldn't find "Grossly Exaggerated:..." in a search of Amazon.com
or Barnes & Noble's site, but if you give your local library the
titles, they may be able to find both of these books for a small
fee (it's $1 per book at my local library).
There are a few Usenet threads which mention the strip:
"Milt Gross & Count Screwloose of Tooloose"
The only potentially useful info in this one is that the dog's
name in the cartoon was "Iggy."
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=milt+gross+tooloose&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=19971204041201.XAA15406%40ladder01.news.aol.com&rnum=1
"Re: Joe's Unofficial WB Review/Reference Letter #1"
Nothing really useful here, except that it mentions that the "World
Encyclopedia of Cartoons" might be helpful.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=milt+gross+tooloose&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=52f21v%24jlq%40newsbf02.news.aol.com&rnum=3
"Screwloose (was Re: Joe's Unofficial WB Review/Reference Letter #1)"
According to this article, the information of which was apparently
taken from "The History of Animation," the two films based on
this cartoon were "Jitterbug Follies" and "Wanted: No Master."
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=milt+gross+tooloose&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=52i69n%244mp%40admin.icon-stl.net&rnum=2
The IMDb (Internet Movie Database) has some information about the
two MGM films. Here are the URLs to the IMDb pages:
"Jitterbug Follies"
http://yoursay.imdb.com/Title?0031509
"Wanted: No Master"
http://yoursay.imdb.com/Title?0032109
martin63, a commenter on the IMDb page for "Wanted: No Master,"
has the following to say about Gross' strip:
"One of the unjustly forgotten comic strips, Milt Gross's "Count
Screwloose
of Tooloose" used to house it's nutty hero in a sanitarium. The Count
later
escaped and settled in suburbia and that is where we find him and J.R.
the
Wonder Dog in this pull-the-stops-out animated adaptation from
MGM..."
martin63, "Screwloose on the Loose" (16 Dec 2001)
http://yoursay.imdb.com/Title?0032109
Additional Links:
The following books may be useful, but I don't have access to
copies of them to verify:
"The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517118599/qid=1037280130/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2900272-5987345?v=glance&s=books
"The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0791051846/qid=1037280472/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2900272-5987345?v=glance&s=books
"The World Encylopedia of Comics (Volume 1)"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/079104856X/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/102-2900272-5987345?v=glance&s=books
You may also find the "Milt Gross Biography" interesting though it
only mentions the strip and doesn't give details on it:
http://www.bpib.com/gross.htm
Search Strategy:
Google Search: milt gross tooloose
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=milt+gross+tooloose&btnG=Google+Search
Google Search: "jitterbug follies"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22jitterbug+follies%22&btnG=Google+Search
Open Directory Search: milt gross
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=milt+gross
Google Images Search: screwloose tooloose
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=screwloose+tooloose&btnG=Google+Search
Ixquick Metasearch: screwloose tooloose
http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?cat=web&cat=web&cmd=process_search&language=english&query=screwloose+tooloose
I hope you find this information useful. If not, please feel free
to request a clarification of my answer.
Best regards,
bikerman-ga |
