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2 unusual facts about Bringing up Father


Allan Holtz

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

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.


Jo, Zette and Jocko

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 Tab Hunter Show

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.


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Vernon Greene

After the death of George McManus in 1954, Greene took over Bringing Up Father.