Bringing Up Father: From Sea to Shining Sea - Hardcover

McManus, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1600105084 ISBN 13: 9781600105081

Publisher: IDW Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

• Jiggs is a millionaire 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!
• "From Sea to Shining Sea" is the most famous and beloved story in the long history of this 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, Library of American Comics edition, which features every daily and full-color Sunday from January 2, 1939 to July 7, 1940.

-The Library of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provide insight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time.” - Scoop

About this title

About the Author

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.

From Booklist

In 1939, McManus sent the cast of Bringing Up Father—uncouth Irish-American paterfamilias Jiggs; his social-climbing wife, Maggie; and their daughter, Nora—on a 10-month trip across America to show Nora’s British husband his new country. The extended journey not only revitalized the strip; it gave McManus a chance to show off his extraordinary drawing ability. While the art-deco interiors in which the action generally occurs are handsome enough, the far-flung locations display the full range of his skills, especially in the Sunday color episodes set in such striking places as the Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, and Times Square. McManus’ elegant artwork is why comics aficionados revere the strip, but it owed its long-running popularity to his talent as a humorist. Never straying far from the strip’s original premise—salt-of-the-earth Jiggs fights a rear-guard action against Maggie’s pompous aspirations—McManus kept the proceedings fresh enough to catch and hold readers throughout the 40 years he produced it, laying a foundation so solid that Bringing Up Father in others’ hands lasted 46 years after his death. --Gordon Flagg

Edition details

• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1600105084
• ISBN 13: 9781600105081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272