Holtz is also a contributor to NBM's Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips series, writing biographical introductions for the volumes on Frederick Opper and Bud Fisher, and creating annotations for Bringing Up Father and other strips reprinted in this series.
Jiggs, who starred with his wife Maggie in the American newspaper comic strip Bringing Up Father, from 1913 to 2000, most popular between the 1920s and 1940s.
father | Father's Day | Father | Father of the Bride | Mother Father Brother Sister | Father Knows Best | Father Ted | The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Romulus, My Father | Father Damien | Father Brown | Father Yod | God the Father | Father Time | Father and Son | Bachelor Father | The Father (Strindberg) | The Father | Father of the Bride (1991 film) | Father Goose: His Book | Father Christmas | Bringing Up Buddy | Bringing Up Baby | Our Father | In the Name of the Father (film) | Father's Little Dividend | Father Rale's War | Father of the Bride (1950 film) | Bachelor Father (U.S. TV series) | A Voyage Round My Father |
He was fascinated by new techniques in the medium – such as the systematic use of speech bubbles – found in such American comics as George McManus' Bringing up Father, George Herriman's Krazy Kat and Rudolph Dirks's Katzenjammer Kids, copies of which had been sent to him from Mexico by the paper's reporter Léon Degrelle, stationed there to report on the Cristero War.
The Bachelor at Large comic strips seen on camera were drawn by veteran cartoonist Zeke Zekley, who had worked closely with George McManus on the classic strip Bringing Up Father from 1935 to 1954.
After the death of George McManus in 1954, Greene took over Bringing Up Father.