He Done Her Wrong

    (Fantagraphics, 2005)
™ and ©2005 Fantagraphic Books

From the Publisher:

He Done Her Wrong is Milt Gross’ graphic masterpiece. Sharing the over-the-top comic mayhem that was the trademark of such silent-era comedians as the Keystone Kops and Charlie Chaplin (upon whose 1928 classic The Circus Gross had reportedly worked). He Done Her Wrong’s hilarious slapstick, tragic heartbreak, heroism and villainy, high emotions and raucous thrills take place, astonishingly, without a single word of text or conversation—or even a footnote!

The story follows the wild misadventures of a naive frontiersman with superhuman strength exploited by a larcenous robber baron who eventually double crosses our hero and steals his girl. The pursuit leads to New York City where a sordid cast of cantankerous salesmen, officious government bureaucrats, bumbling hospital attendants, a lusty widow with a defensive Chihuahua and one angry barber wreak more havoc than a hundred Little Rascals in a Marx Brothers movie.
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