Bringing Up Father

by Geo. McManus, Robert C. Harvey (Introduction), Jeffrey Lindenblatt (Editor)

In 1904, a young George McManus was hired by Pulitzer’s New York World as a cartoonist. While he was there he created such strips as The Newlyweds which many comics historians consider the first family comic strip. In 1912, William Randolph Hearst hired McManus away to start a comic strip about a guy called Jiggs, a lower class man who came into a lot of money. With their new wealth, Maggie, Jiggs’ wife, wanted to enter the upper crust of society but Jiggs just wanted to hang out with his old friends at the local bar playing cards and pool and eat his simple favorite foods. This is the classic strip Bringing Up Father which became the second longest comic strip of the 20th Century. Now, for the first time, Forever Nuts presents all the dailies of the first two years of this classic comic strip, many of which have not been reprinted since they first appeared over 90 years ago. Discover why McManus became known as one of the greats in the field.

Genres: Comics, Humor

192 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2009

Reviews

[Robert]

Lovingly curated early run of this mostly forgotten comic. Surprisingly funny still, if a bit slow; and the accompanying annotations - while appreciated and well meant, didn't really contain anything new or necessary - there wasn't a lot of topical humor that might even need explanation, and anyone reading a book of comic's from the 1910's is going to be familiar with the era and its social and practical realities already.

[Viggo Pedersen]

Reading the older Sunday strips every Christmas in my childhood, finally getting to read it from the very beginning was such a delight and brought back so many memories! An absolute ace book collecting the first 2 years!

[Alex Fyffe]

3.5

[Erik]

Everyman Jiggs comes into money and is expected to act with class. The results are predictable and the jokes are pretty corny.