Bringing Up Father (original comic strip)

 

George McManus

  1884 - 1954

1944  

ink on paper with screentone transfer 

5 1/8 x 17 3/4" image size 

ink signed in final panel, center 

1 of 1 unique 

inked text throughout; typeset copyright and publisher's information, third panel from left, pasted along bottom panel edge 

 

cream wove 

published 

King Features Syndicate, Inc. 

SARY109 

$750.00 

McManus' most well known comic, featuring Jiggs, a working-class Irish immigrant and his family who've become the recipients of the Irish Sweepstakes, finding themselves suddenly plunged into the glittering world of pre-stock market-crash wealth. A regular, blue collar, immigrant family in America bumbling their way through rich society proved to be appealing to readers, and Bringing Up Father would become one of the most successful comic strips of the 20th century.