Editing Bringing Up Father (section)

==Topper strips==
[[File:Rosiesbeau52938.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|{{center|"Rosie's Beau" (May 29, 1938)}}]]
In 1926, McManus added a Sunday [[topper (comic strip)|topper]] strip above ''Bringing Up Father'', beginning with ''No Brains But'' (January 10 to May 9, 1926) and ''Good Morning, Boss!'' (May 16 to June 6, 1926). Starting on June 13, 1926, McManus changed the topper to ''Rosie's Beau'', a revival of his previous Sunday page (which ran from October 29, 1916 to April 7, 1918). ''Rosie's Beau'' continued as the topper until November 12, 1944.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |pages=85, 174, 288, 335}}</ref>

On April 17, 1938, an absent-minded character named Sir Von Platter 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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HE2_Vam2oZ4C&pg=PA8 Inge, M. Thomas. ''Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form''. University of Mississippi Press, 1995.]</ref>

Starting on November 19, 1944, McManus replaced ''Rosie's Beau'' with ''Snookums'', itself a revival of a 1904-1916 McManus strip, ''The Newlyweds and Their Baby'', now focused on their son, the titular character. ''Snookums'' remained as the topper for ''Bringing Up Father'' until December 31, 1956, at which point it became a standalone Sunday feature distributed until the early 1960s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |pages=286, 358}}</ref>

In the final episode of HBO's ''[[The Pacific (miniseries)|The Pacific]]'' (2010), [[Robert Leckie (author)|Robert Leckie]] ([[James Badge Dale]]) is seen reading ''Snookums''.

Other minor topper panels overlapping with the above were ''Things We Can Do Without'' (July 23, 1933 to April 22, 1934), ''How to Keep From Getting Old'' (April 1, 1934 to May 19, 1935), ''It's the Gypsy in Me'' (May 26, 1935 to April 25, 1937) and ''What'll I Do Now'' (January 5 to March 15, 1936).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |pages=197, 209, 383, 408}}</ref>