Bringing up Father
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Bringing Up Father was an influential American
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 comic strip
Comic strip
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 created by cartoonist
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 George McManus
George McManus
George McManus was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie, the central characters in his syndicated comic strip, Bringing Up Father....

 (1884–1954). Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

, it ran for 87 years, from January 12, 1913 to May 28, 2000.

Many readers, however, simply called the strip "Jiggs and Maggie" (or "Maggie and Jiggs"), after its two main characters. According to McManus, he introduced these same characters in other strips as early as November 1911.

Characters and story

The humor centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes. Now nouveau-riche, he still longs to revert to his former working class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

 habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage
New England boiled dinner
New England boiled dinner is the basis of a traditional New England meal, consisting of corned beef or a smoked "picnic ham" shoulder, with cabbage and added vegetable items, often including potato, rutabaga, parsnip, carrot, white turnip and onion. When using a beef roast, this meal is often known...

 (known regionally as "Jiggs dinner") and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) harridan of a wife, Maggie, and their lovely young daughter, Nora.

The strip deals with "lace-curtain Irish", with Maggie as the middle-class Irish American
Irish American
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 desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to an older, more raffish "shanty Irish" sensibility represented by Jiggs. Her lofty goal—frustrated in nearly every strip—is to bring father (the lowbrow Jiggs) "up" to upper class standards, hence the title, Bringing Up Father. The occasional malapropisms and left-footed social blunders of these upward mobiles were gleefully lampooned in vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

, popular song, and formed the basis for Bringing Up Father. The strip presented multiple perceptions of Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic
Irish Catholic is a term used to describe people who are both Roman Catholic and Irish .Note: the term is not used to describe a variant of Catholicism. More particularly, it is not a separate creed or sect in the sense that "Anglo-Catholic", "Old Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox Catholic" might be...

 ethnics during the early 20th century. Through the character Jiggs, McManus gave voice to their anxieties and aspirations. Varied interpretations of McManus's work often highlight difficult issues of ethnicity and class, such as the conflicts over assimilation and social mobility that second- and third-generation immigrants confronted. McManus took a middle position, which aided ethnic readers in becoming accepted in American society without losing their identity.

Jiggs and Maggie were generally drawn with circles for eyes, a feature more often associated with the later strip, Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie
Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News...

.

Origin and sources

McManus, who numbered Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, done in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A....

 among his influences, had a bold, clean-cut cartooning line. His strong sense of composition and Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau
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 and Art Deco
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 design made the strip a stand-out on the comics page.

McManus was inspired by The Rising Generation, a musical comedy by William Gill that he had seen as a boy in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
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, Missouri
Missouri
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's Grand Opera House, where his father was manager. In The Rising Generation, Irish-American bricklayer Martin McShayne (played by the fat Irish comedian Billy Barry in the stage production McManus saw) becomes a wealthy contractor, yet his society-minded wife and daughter were ashamed of him and his lowbrow buddies, prompting McShayne to sneak out to join his pals for poker. McManus knew Barry and used him as the basis for his drawings of Jiggs. McManus' wife, the former Florence Bergere, was the model for daughter Nora.

One of McManus' friends, restaurateur James Moore, claimed he was the inspiration for the character Dinty Moore, the owner of Jiggs' favorite tavern. James Moore changed his name to Dinty and founded a real-life restaurant chain. The restaurant owner, however, did not begin the successful line of Dinty Moore canned goods marketed today by Hormel
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.

A surreal running gag
Running gag
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 throughout the strip, always removed from the main action of the story, involved hanging wall paintings that "come to life", with subjects often "breaking the fourth wall", escaping the confines of the picture frames, or changing position from panel to panel within the same strip. None of the nominal stars of the strip ever seemed to notice the animated figures, or anything unusual happening on the walls in the background directly behind them.

Comics historian Don Markstein
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 wrote about McManus' characters:
On January 12, 1913, he debuted Bringing Up Father, about an Irishman named Jiggs, who doesn't understand why his ascension to wealth via the Irish Sweepstakes means he can't hang out with his friends, and his nagging, social-climbing wife, Maggie. The strip was an instant hit, possibly because of its combination of an appealing cast of characters with a unique look of art-nouveau splendor... Before McManus died, in 1954, Bringing Up Father made him two fortunes (the first was lost in the 1929 stock market crash). By that time, Jiggs's Irishness had faded—the new generation saw him as just a rich guy that liked to hang out with a regular crowd.


An uncredited script collaborator on the strip was McManus' brother, Charles W. McManus, who was 61 when he died August 31, 1941. He also had his own comic strips in the 1920s, Dorothy Darnit and Mr. Broad.

Topper strips

In 1913, Rosie's Beau
Topper (comic strip)
A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips and single-panel cartoons to their page.Toppers usually were drawn...

was McManus' Sunday page
Sunday strip
A Sunday strip is a newspaper comic strip format, where comic strips are printed in the Sunday newspaper, usually in a special section called the Sunday comics, and virtually always in color. Some readers called these sections the Sunday funnies...

, and he later revived it as a Sunday topper
Topper (comic strip)
A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips and single-panel cartoons to their page.Toppers usually were drawn...

 strip above Bringing Up Father. On April 17, 1938, an absent-minded character in Rosie's Beau realized he was in the wrong place and climbed down into the first panel of Bringing Up Father, arriving in the living room of Maggie and Jiggs.

In 1941, McManus replaced Rosie's Beau with Snookums
Topper (comic strip)
A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips and single-panel cartoons to their page.Toppers usually were drawn...

which ran as the topper above Bringing Up Father until 1956. In the final episode of HBO's The Pacific
The Pacific (miniseries)
The Pacific is a 2010 television series produced by HBO, Seven Network Australia, Sky Movies, Playtone and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010....

(2010), Robert Leckie
Robert Leckie (author)
Robert Leckie was an American author of popular books on the military history of the United States. As a young man, he served in the Marine Corps with the 1st Marine Division during World War II...

 (James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale is an American actor who starred in the AMC drama series Rubicon. He is most famous for his role of Chase Edmunds in the third season of 24 and Robert Leckie in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.-Early years:...

) is seen reading Snookums. The Pacific is partially based on Leckie's book, Helmet for My Pillow
Helmet for My Pillow
Helmet for My Pillow is the personal narrative written by World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author and military historian Robert Leckie...

(1957), but there is no mention of Snookums in Leckie's book.

Artists

When McManus died in 1954, the strip continued with other artists, including Bill Kavanaugh and Frank Fletcher. It was expected that McManus' longtime assistant Emil "Zeke" Zekley
Zeke Zekley
Emil Samuel Zekley , better known as Zeke Zekley, was an American cartoonist who worked on several comic strips, notably George McManus' Bringing Up Father....

 would take over the strip, but instead King Features replaced McManus with Vernon Greene
Vernon Greene
Vernon Van Atta Greene was a prolific cartoonist and illustrator who worked on several comic strips and was best known for his artwork on Bringing Up Father....

. With Greene's death in 1965, Hal Campagna stepped in, and Frank Johnson (Boner's Ark
Boner's Ark
Boner's Ark was an American comic strip created by Mort Walker, also the creator of Beetle Bailey. Walker debuted the strip under the pseudonym "Addison" on March 11, 1968. The title is a reference to Noah's Ark of Abrahamic religions....

) replaced Campagna in 1980. The strip's popularity faded, and Bringing Up Father limped along until its 87-year run came to a close on May 28, 2000.

In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics
Comic Strip Classics
The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the US Postal Service in 1995 to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip....

 series of commemorative US postage stamps. Bringing Up Father went digital in 2007 when King Features made the strip available as one of the selections in its DailyINK
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

 email package.

International syndication

Bringing Up Father still enjoys popularity in the Scandinavian country Norway
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; known as Fiinbeck og Fia, the strip has been published weekly in the family journal Hjemmet since 1921; a yearly Christmas book with the strip is published every year since 1930, in the last few decades mostly reprints of material produced by McManus in the 1940s and 1950s. A similar publication was also an annual event (from 1931 to 1977) in Sweden
Sweden
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, where the strip is known as Gyllenbom. In Turkey
Turkey
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, the strip was published daily by Hürriyet
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 until the late 90s under the name Güngörmüşler (The Worldly-wiseds) with Jiggs renamed to Şaban
Shaaban
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 and Maggie renamed to Tonton (darling).

Stage

Gus Hill's production of Bringing Up Father opened on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 in 1914, with music composed by Frank H. Grey, lyrics by Elven E. Hedges, libretto by John P. Mulgrew and Thomas Swift, choreography by Edward Hutchinson, and directed by Frank Tannehill, Jr. Hill produced many more theatrical versions of the strip that toured the country, including Bringing Up Father in Florida, Bringing Up Father on Broadway, Bringing Up Father in Ireland, Bringing Up Father Abroad, and Bringing Up Father in Wall Street.

Bringing Up Father at the Seashore opened on Broadway at the Manhattan Opera House in 1921, but closed after 18 performances; a revised version reopened in 1928. Another of Hill's productions of Father opened at the Lyric Theatre in 1925. "Reportedly, this version had Maggie following a fleeing Jiggs from Ireland to a yacht headed for Spain, but the story was halted frequently for various vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

 acts. The show closed after 24 performances," according to The Holloway Pages' history of the strip.

Sheet music

  • By the Susquehanna Shore (from Bringing Up Father, 1914)
  • Bringing Up Father on Broadway (1919) Songs include: The Lotus Club Rag; Dry Those Tears; The Fair Irene; All for a Girl
  • I'm Longing for a Pair of Irish Eyes (from Bringing Up Father in Florida, 1920)
  • Bringing Up Father in Wall Street (1921) Songs include: Rose of My Heart; Somebody's Darling Boy; When That Mobile Boy Sings the Memphis Blues; The Wonderful Way You Love; I'm Free, Single, Disengaged; Looking for Someone to Love; There's No Fool Like an Old Fool; My Dixie Rose; Million Dollar Smile; Just One Little Smile
  • Bringing Up Father Song Book (1922) Songs include: Sweet Southern Lullaby; Dear Old-Fashioned Mother; China Doll
  • They'll Never Bring Up Father 'Till They Tear Down Dinty Moore's (1923)

Animation

(The following are silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 animated cartoons based on Bringing Up Father, all produced by International Film Service and released through Pathé
Pathé
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.)
  • Father Gets into the Movies (1916)
  • Just Like a Woman (1916)
  • A Hot Time in the Gym (1917)
  • The Great Hansom Cab Mystery (1917)
  • Music Hath Charms (1917)
  • He Tries His Hand at Hypnotism (1917)
  • The Stimulating Mrs. Barton (1918)
  • Father's Close Shave (1918)
  • Jiggs and the Social Lion (1918)

Two-reel shorts

(All live-action silent comedies, also produced by International Film Service and released through Pathé. Starring comedian Johnny Ray as Jiggs and Laura La Plante as Maggie; directed by Reggie Morris. Confusingly enough, a couple of the titles in this series were duplicated from the earlier cartoons.) This series included:
  • Jiggs in Society (1920)
  • Jiggs and the Social Lion (1920)
  • Jiggs' Close Shave [aka Father's Close Shave] (1921)

Comic books

  • Bringing Up Father was a feature of David McKay
    David McKay Publications
    David McKay Publications was an American book publisher which also published some of the first comic books, including the long-running titles Ace Comics, King Comics, and Magic Comics; as well as collections of such popular comic strips as Blondie, Dick Tracy, and Mandrake the Magician...

    's King Comics title from #60 to #135 (1941–1947)
  • Jiggs and Maggie Standard Comics
    Standard Comics
    Standard Comics was a comic book imprint of American publisher Ned Pines, who also published pulp magazines under a variety of company names that he also used for the comics...

     (11 issues, 1949–1953)
  • Jiggs and Maggie Harvey Comics
    Harvey Comics
    Harvey Comics was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B...

     (6 issues, 1953–1954).

Radio

Sponsored by Lever Brothers
Lever Brothers
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, the Bringing Up Father radio series aired on the Blue Network
Blue Network
The Blue Network, and its immediate predecessor, the NBC Blue Network, were the on-air names of an American radio production and distribution service from 1927 to 1945...

 from July 1 to September 30, 1941, starring Mark Smith (1887-1944) as Jiggs and Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences...

 as Maggie. Neil O'Malley also portrayed Jiggs. Their daughter Nora was played by Helen Shields and Joan Banks
Joan Banks
Joan Banks was an American film, television, stage and radio actress who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy....

. Craig McDonnell (1907–1956) was heard in the role of Dinty Moore. The 30-minute program aired Tuesdays at 9pm.

Feature films

The following feature-length movies were based on the strip:
  • Bringing Up Father (1928) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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    ; Silent comedy directed by Jack Conway, written by Frances Marion
    Frances Marion
    Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.-Career:...

     with titles by Ralph Spence
    Ralph Spence
    Ralph Spence was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 121 films between 1912 and 1946.He was born in Key West, Florida and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...

    , starring J. Farrell MacDonald
    J. Farrell MacDonald
    Joseph Farrell MacDonald was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. MacDonald, who was sometimes billed as "John Farrell Macdonald", "J.F...

     as Jiggs, Polly Moran
    Polly Moran
    Polly Moran was an American actress and comedian.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moran started out in vaudeville, and widely toured North America, as well as various other locations that included Europe and South Africa...

     as Maggie, Gertrude Omstead as their daughter (renamed "Ellen"), and Jules Cowles and Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler was a Canadian-American actress and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930-31 in Min and Bill.-Early life and stage career:...

     as Mr. and Mrs. Dinty Moore.

  • Vihtori ja Klaara (Finland
    Finland
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    , 1939) The first sound comedy based on the strip, although the characters are speaking Finnish; directed by filmmaker Teuvo Tulio
    Teuvo Tulio
    Theodor Antonius Tugai , better known as Teuvo Tulio, was a Finnish film director and actor. Beginning his career as an actor at the end of the silent era, Tulio turned to directing and producing in the 1930s...

    .

  • Bringing Up Father (1946) Monogram Pictures
    Monogram Pictures
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    ; directed by Edward F. Cline
    Edward F. Cline
    Edward Francis Cline was a screenwriter, actor, writer and director. He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and died in Hollywood.-Career:...

     and written by Cline, Barney Gerard and Jerry Warner, starring Joe Yule
    Joe Yule
    Ninnian Joseph Ewell was a Scottish vaudeville comedian who starred in many films as a character actor. He was noted for his role in the "Jiggs and Maggie" film series....

     as Jiggs, Renie Riano as Maggie, George McManus (as himself), Tim Ryan
    Tim Ryan (actor)
    Tim Ryan was an American performer who is probably best known today as a film actor. Ryan and his wife, Irene who later played Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies, were a show business team that performed on Broadway, film and radio...

     as the stingy and belligerent Dinty Moore, and Pat Goldin as the ever-silent Dugan.


The last entry produced four sequels, all released by Monogram:
  • Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1948)
  • Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948)
  • Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949)
  • Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950)


The series was discontinued due to the death of Joe Yule in March 1950. (Yule is the father of Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

, who expressed interest in reviving Jiggs onstage in the late 1980s. Both Martha Raye
Martha Raye
Martha Raye was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television....

 and Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...

 were considered for the part of Maggie, but the project was never produced.)

Collections and reprints

  • (1919–1934) The Cupples & Leon Co. produced 26 semi-annual daily strip reprints in softcover books measuring 10" x 10".

  • (1926) They also published two larger, hardcover editions; Bringing Up Father: The BIG Book, and
  • (1929) Bringing Up Father: BIG Book No. 2

  • (1936) Whitman Publishing released Bringing Up Father: A Big Little Book

  • (1973) Charles Scribner's Sons published a hardcover anthology, Bringing Up Father: Starring Maggie and Jiggs. ISBN 0517167247

  • (1977) Hyperion Press released a reprint volume in their "Hyperion Library of Classic American Comic Strips" series, available in both hardcover and paperback editions.

  • (1986) The Celtic Book Company released Jiggs Is Back, a full-color, 64-page oversized trade paperback of Sunday strip reprints. ISBN 0-913666-82-3

  • (July 2009) NBM reprinted the first two years of the daily strip as part of their "Forever Nuts" series: Forever Nuts Presents: Bringing Up Father. ISBN 1-56163-556-1

  • (November 2009) IDW Publishing
    IDW Publishing
    IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

    's "Library of American Comics" imprint
    Imprint
    In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...

     reprinted the cross-country tour storyline that ran from January 1939 to July 1940 as Bringing Up Father: From Sea to Shining Sea, the first of several "best of" reprint collections. ISBN 1-60010-508-4

Parodies and guest appearances

  • In issue 17 of Mad
    Mad (magazine)
    Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...

    , Harvey Kurtzman
    Harvey Kurtzman
    Harvey Kurtzman was an American cartoonist and the editor of several comic books and magazines. Kurtzman often signed his name H. Kurtz, followed by a stick figure Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924, Brooklyn, New York – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and the editor of several comic...

    's story "Bringing Back Father", illustrated by Will Elder
    Will Elder
    William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art, but is best known for a zany cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952....

     and Bernard Krigstein
    Bernard Krigstein
    Bernard Krigstein , was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B...

    , depicted Jiggs as the victim of domestic abuse, bruised and bleeding after physical assaults by the domineering Maggie, who has struck Jiggs with thrown kitchen utensils and crockery. When Kurtzman died in 1993, slides from this parody were shown by Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...

     at Kurtzman's memorial service in the Time-Warner building.
  • In his book In the Shadow of No Towers
    In the Shadow of No Towers
    In the Shadow of No Towers is a comic by Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist Art Spiegelman.-Overview:The comic evolved from Spiegelman's experiences during the September 11 terrorist attacks...

    , Spiegelman drew himself as Jiggs and his wife as Maggie. He also included a reprint of a Bringing Up Father Sunday strip.
  • In the comic strip Arlo and Janis
    Arlo and Janis
    Arlo and Janis is a comic strip written and drawn by Jimmy Johnson. It is a leisurely-paced domestic situation comedy. It was first published in newspapers on July 29, 1985.- Cast :...

    (March 17, 2006), Jiggs is invited to the home of Arlo and Janis for corned beef and cabbage in honor of the day. He enjoys himself immensely, and entertains his hosts with his stories, jokes and witticisms. Everyone has a happy St. Patrick's Day.
  • In Marvel Comics
    Marvel Comics
    Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

    ' Power Pack
    Power Pack
    Power Pack is a fictional team of comic book superheroes consisting of four young siblings who appear in books published by Marvel Comics. They were created by writer Louise Simonson and artist June Brigman and first appeared in their own series in 1984. The series lasted 62 issues...

    , Jiggs is the King of Elsewhere and receives a visit from Katie Power
    Katie Power
    Energizer , is a fictional character in Marvel Comics' universe. She first appeared in Power Pack #1 and was created by Louise Simonson and June Brigman.-Publication history:...

    .

Sources

  • Strickler, Dave
    Dave Strickler
    Dave Strickler is a reference librarian noted for his compilation of Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index, regarded as a major reference work by researchers and historians of newspaper comic strips....

    . Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1

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