COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Four Color 37 Universal
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Grade:
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9.2
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Central Valley
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Certification #:
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0763810005
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Owner:
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4GEMWORKS
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Bringing up Father. 1/44. Out of the Central Valley Pedigree collection. This issue actyually reprints comic strips from 1936 to 1938.
Creator: George McManus.
This is the best of just three issues graded to date. From my experience , one of teh toughest to find.
Interesting info:
Bringing Up Father
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George McManus' Sunday page with Bringing Up Father and the Snookums topper strip (November 28, 1953).
Bringing Up Father was an influential American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus (1884–1954). Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 12, 1913 to May 28, 2000.
Many readers, however, simply called the strip "Jiggs and Maggie" (or "Maggie and Jiggs"), after its two main characters. According to McManus, he introduced these same characters in other strips as early as November 1911.[1]
Contents
[hide] 1 Characters and story
2 Origin and sources
3 Topper strips
4 Artists
5 International syndication
6 Maggie and Jiggs in other media 6.1 Stage
6.2 Sheet music
6.3 Animation
6.4 Two-reel shorts
6.5 Comic books
6.6 Radio
6.7 Feature films
7 Collections and reprints
8 Parodies and guest appearances
9 References
10 Sources
11 External links
[edit] Characters and story
The humor centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes.[2] Now nouveau-riche, he still longs to revert to his former working class habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage (known regionally as "Jiggs dinner") and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) harridan of a wife, Maggie, and their lovely young daughter, Nora.
The strip deals with "lace-curtain Irish", with Maggie as the middle-class Irish American desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to an older, more raffish "shanty Irish" sensibility represented by Jiggs. Her lofty goal—frustrated in nearly every strip—is to bring father (the lowbrow Jiggs) "up" to upper class standards, hence the title, Bringing Up Father. The occasional malapropisms and left-footed social blunders of these upward mobiles were gleefully lampooned in vaudeville, popular song, and formed the basis for Bringing Up Father.[3] The strip presented multiple perceptions of Irish Catholic ethnics during the early 20th century. Through the character Jiggs, McManus gave voice to their anxieties and aspirations. Varied interpretations of McManus's work often highlight difficult issues of ethnicity and class, such as the conflicts over assimilation and social mobility that second- and third-generation immigrants confronted. McManus took a middle position, which aided ethnic readers in becoming accepted in American society without losing their identity.[4]
Jiggs and Maggie were generally drawn with circles for eyes, a feature more often associated with the later strip, Little Orphan Annie.
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