Debuting on
January 12, 1913, Bringing Up Father features that new
millionaire, Jiggs, whose desire to stay in the old working class
neighborhood is at odds with his wife Maggie’s dreams of high
society, and his daughter Nora's obsession with high fashion. Over
the years, Jiggs has tasted tea in London, ale in Austria, and saki
in Osaka—now he is back home in America for his wildest
vacation yet!
Bringing Up Father Vol. 1
From Sea to Shining
Sea
by George McManus
Edited by Bruce Canwell, Designed by Dean Mullaney,
Essays by Brian Walker and Bruce Canwell.
2010 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE: "Best Archival Project"!!!
George McManus's classic Art Deco comedy strip
gets the deluxe treatment, with the spectacular Sunday pages
reproduced large and in gloriously restored color. Jiggs is a
millionaire working-man who yearns to hang out with his friends in
the old blue-collar neighborhood. Wife Maggie is determined to drag
Jiggs into the world of high society. When this mismatched couple
treats their daughter and her new husband to a trip across North
America, the resulting hijinx stretch From Sea to Shining Sea. This
is the most famous and beloved story in the long history of the
classic strip. Creator George McManus's funny gags, outlandish
costumes, eye-catching artwork, and lush, Art Deco designs are all
on display in this deluxe volume, which features every daily and
full-color Sunday from January 2, 1939 to July 7, 1940.
Oversized 11" x 10"
hardcover-with-dustjacket, 272 pp. with index, $49.99.
ISBN: 978-1-60010-508-1.
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Bringing Up Father Vol. 2
Of Cabbages and
Kings
by George McManus
Edited by Bruce Canwell, Designed by Dean Mullaney
Maggie and Jiggs are back in "Of Cabbages and
Kings," an extravanga that contains dailies and Sundays from 1937
and 1938. The combustible-yet-inseparable couple go to London for
the King's coronation. Upon their return, Jiggs decides the only
way he'll convince Maggie to move back to the old neighborhood is
to lose his fortune. He makes the one outlandish investment after
another but each time he only becomes richer. Until he hits on the
right formula. For Maggie, the unthinkable happens: it's back to
eating boiled cabbage when the wealthy Jiggs goes
broke!
Oversized 11"
x 10" hardcover-with-dustjacket, 304 pp., $49.99. ISBN
978-1-61377-532-5
George McManus (1882–1954) began his newspaper career at age thirteen, working for five dollars a week at the St. Louis Republic. He moved to New York in 1903, began Bringing Up Father in 1913, and became one of the wealthiest cartoonists in the world during the 1930s. Like Jiggs, his comic strip hero, McManus never abandoned his old friends or his appreciation for life's simple pleasures. He parlayed two battling lovebirds named Maggie and Jiggs into a worldwide sensation, seen in five hundred newspapers, translated into nineteen different languages worldwide, and honored in 1995 with a U.S. postage stamp in the "Comic Strip Classics" collection.