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George McManus (January 23, 1884 – October 22, 1954) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie, the main characters of his syndicated comic strip, Bringing Up Father .
Jun 21, 2024 · Read the obituary of Senator George Alvin McManus Jr. (1930 - 2024) from Traverse City, MI. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page.
Nov 6, 2018 · Banton charged Rothstein’s gambling friend George A. McManus with the murder. Rothstein was said to have told a witness at Lindy’s that McManus had called and summoned Rothstein to the Park Central Hotel, where McManus was checked into Room 349.
Bringing Up Father is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 2, 1913, to May 28, 2000. The strip was later titled Jiggs and Maggie (or Maggie and Jiggs ), after its two main characters.
(23 January 1884 - 22 October 1954, USA) 'Bringing Up Father'. George McManus was born of Irish parents in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1884. He dropped out of school at age fifteen and started working at the Saint Louis Republic. This newspaper published his first comic, 'Alma and Oliver'.
Jun 17, 2013 · One of the most enduring of these strips was George McManus' masterpiece, Bringing Up Father. None of us ever called it by its proper name: we called it "Jiggs" (after its male protagonist) or "Maggie and Jiggs" (including his wife).
George McManus was born on 23 January 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950), Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948) and Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949).
George McManus’s artistic prime and primal ethnicity both occurred in the decade of the 1930s. The profligate, generous complexity and color of two major sequences that he created in those years are a direct answer to the privations and disappointments of the Great Depression.
Feb 2, 2023 · When George McManus went to work at the New York American in 1912, as a comic artist, he did his job well – he made us laugh. The true test of his ability is that a century and more later his comics are still funny.
Jan 23, 2013 · The man who created perhap the most popular strip ever was George McManus. He was born January 23, 1884, in the midwestern city of St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Central High School, where his English teacher, Miss Brown, noticed his goofing off in class and drawing funny pictures.
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