Bringing Up Father
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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.
Bringing Up Father (January 31, 1920)
Panel from Bringing Up Father (January 7, 1940)
"Rosie's Beau" (May 29, 1938)
An example of Zeke Zekley's work as assistant to George McManus on Bringing Up Father and the Snookums topper strip (November 28, 1953) during the last year of McManus' life.
Brick hod
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A brick hod is a three-sided box for carrying bricks or other building materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder. A hod is usually long enough to accept four bri
Bringing Up Father
…McManus, he introduced these same characters in other strips as early as November 1911. The strip 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…
Twin brothers Albert and Ebenezer Fox each holding a hod