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1946.05.22 "Bringing Up Father" by McManus and Zekley

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

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1946.05.22 Bringing Up Father by McManus and Zekley Comic Art

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Title:	1946.05.22 "Bringing Up Father" by McManus and Zekley
Artist:	George McManus (All)
Artist:	Zeke Zekley (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	130
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	1/4/2025
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1946.05.22 �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.

In the news. The war was over, but not forgotten. On May 22, 1946, Karl Hermann Frank, 48, Nazi SS leader who oversaw the massacres at Lidice and Lezaky, was hanged in Prague.

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artless artmore
Member Since 2013

Posted on 1/5/2025

Classic daily! Interesting how word baloons and other text was handled in that era

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 1/5/2025

artless artmore wrote:

Classic daily!� Interesting how word baloons and other text was handled in that era

Having the characters in the picture frames breaking the wall is just a frosting of deliciousness to his pieces.

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