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1944.08.24 “Bringing Up Father” by George McManus

Artists: George McManus (All) , Zeke Zekley (All)

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Title:	1944.08.24 “Bringing Up Father” by George McManus
Artist:	George McManus (All)
Artist:	Zeke Zekley (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	147
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	2/7/2023
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1944.08.24 “Bringing Up Father”
by George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
23.25 x 5.75 in., ink on paper
Coppola Collection

In 1904, 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 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.

McManus had masterful line work with a strong deco feel to his designs. Over time, he developed the recurring motif of animating the background paintings in certain panels, and this is generally delightful.

Slang is generally considered a universal constant and an intrinsic feature of language. The enormous growth of broadcast media (movies, radio) in the 1930s and 1940s brought American slang to a wider audience than in previous eras. These two strips I have from August 23-24 highlight the usual generational divide that characterizes slang, as used by youth to set cultural identity. With each generation, although much of the usage dies out, a set words will also always persist and become part of the mainstream, common vernacular.

The whimsy in the funny papers often sits in sharp contrast to the news of the day.

The liberation of Paris began on August 19, 1944 and ended with the surrender of the German garrison in the French capital on August 25, 1944.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 2/7/2023

Fun strip as he's dancing with his own shadow.

"You know parents are the same
No matter time nor place
They don't understand that us kids
Are going to make some mistakes
So to you, all the kids all across the land
There's no need to argue
Parents just don't understand" - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 2/7/2023

Marcus Wai wrote:

Fun strip as he's dancing with his own shadow.

Thanks, Marcus.

This pair of strips from sequential days is just a delight together. I love the drawing on BUF which is why I collect them, but the "of-the-time" dialog here is worth the price of admission.

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