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{{Infobox comic strip
| title       = Bringing Up Father
| image       = [[File:Bringupfather-comic1920.jpg|280px]]
| caption     = ''Bringing Up Father'' (January 31, 1920)
| genre       = Humor
| author      = George McManus
| status      = Concluded
| first       = {{start date|1913|01|2}}
| last        = {{End date|2000|05|28}}
| syndicate   = King Features Syndicate
| publisher   =
| rating      =
| altnames    = ''Maggie  & Jiggs ''
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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.

The strip was later titled '''''Jiggs and Maggie''''' (or '''''Maggie and Jiggs'''''), after its two main characters. According to McManus, he introduced these same characters in other strips as early as November 1911.<ref>Goulart, Ron, editor. ''The Encyclopedia of American Comics''. Facts on File, 1990.</ref>

==Characters and story==
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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=J8O_MwesxUYC&pg=PA79 Merwin, Ted. "In Their Own Image", Rutgers, 2006.]</ref> Now [[nouveau-riche]], he still longs to revert to his former [[working class]] habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat [[New England boiled dinner|corned beef and cabbage]] (known regionally as "[[Jiggs dinner]]"), and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by Maggie, his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) [[wikt:harridan|harridan]] of a wife, their lovely young daughter Nora, and infrequently their lazy son Ethelbert, later known as Sonny. Also a character presented in the strip (portrayed as a miserly borrower) was named, fittingly, Titus Canby ("tight as can be").

The strip deals with "[[Lace Curtain Irish|lace-curtain Irish]]", with Maggie as the middle-class Irish American desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to an older, more raffish "[[shanty Irish]]" sensibility represented by Jiggs. Her lofty goal—frustrated in nearly every strip—is to bring Father (the lowbrow Jiggs) "up" to upper class standards, hence the title, ''Bringing Up Father''. The occasional [[malapropisms]] and left-footed social blunders of these upward mobiles were gleefully lampooned in [[vaudeville]] and popular song, and formed the basis for ''Bringing Up Father''.<ref>William H. A. Williams, "Green Again: Irish-American Lace-Curtain Satire", ''New Hibernia Review'', Winter 2002, Vol. 6 Issue 2, pp 9–24</ref>

Varied interpretations of McManus's work often highlight difficult issues of ethnicity and class, such as the conflicts over assimilation and social mobility that second- and third-generation immigrants confronted. McManus took a middle position, which aided ethnic readers in becoming accepted in American society without losing their identity.<ref>Kerry Soper, "Performing 'Jiggs': Irish Caricature and Comedic Ambivalence Toward Assimilation and the American Dream in George Mcmanus's 'Bringing Up Father'", ''Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era'', April 2005, Vol. 4#2, pp 173–213.</ref> A cross-country tour that the characters took in September 1939 into 1940 gave the strip a big promotional boost and raised its profile in the cities they visited.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cartoonician.com/big-deals-comics-highest-profile-moments/ |title="Big Deals: Comics' Highest-Profile Moments", ''Hogan's Alley'' #7, 1999 |access-date=November 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630083743/http://cartoonician.com/big-deals-comics-highest-profile-moments/ |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Jiggs and Maggie were generally drawn with circles for eyes, a feature also associated with the later strip ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]''.

==Origin and sources==
McManus, who numbered [[Aubrey Beardsley]] among his influences, had a bold, clean-cut cartooning line.  His strong sense of composition and [[Art Nouveau]] and [[Art Deco]] design made the strip a stand-out on the comics page.

McManus was inspired by ''The Rising Generation'', a musical comedy by William Gill that he had seen as a boy in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]'s Grand Opera House, where his father was manager. In ''The Rising Generation'', Irish-American bricklayer Martin McShayne (played by the fat Irish comedian Billy Barry in the stage production McManus saw) becomes a wealthy contractor, yet his society-minded wife and daughter were ashamed of him and his lowbrow buddies, prompting McShayne to sneak out to join his pals for poker. McManus knew Barry and used him as the basis for his drawings of Jiggs. McManus's wife, the former Florence Bergere, was the model for daughter Nora.

[[Image:Jiggsslum1740.jpg|thumb|Panel from ''Bringing Up Father'' (January 7, 1940)]]

One of McManus's friends, restaurateur James Moore, claimed he was the inspiration for the character '''Dinty Moore''', the owner of Jiggs's favorite tavern. James Moore changed his name to Dinty and founded a real-life restaurant chain. The restaurant owner, however, did not begin the successful line of Dinty Moore canned goods marketed today by [[Hormel]].

A surrealistic [[running gag]] throughout the strip, always removed from the main action of the story, involved hanging wall paintings that "come to life", with subjects often "[[breaking the fourth wall]]", escaping the confines of the picture frames, or changing position from panel to panel within the same strip. None of the nominal stars of the strip ever seemed to notice the animated figures, or anything unusual happening on the walls in the background directly behind them.

Comics historian [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia|Don Markstein]] wrote about McManus's characters:
:On January 12, 1913 [actually January 2], he debuted ''Bringing Up Father'', about an Irishman named Jiggs, who doesn't understand why his ascension to wealth via the Irish Sweepstakes means he can't hang out with his friends, and his nagging, social-climbing wife, Maggie. The strip was an instant hit, possibly because of its combination of an appealing cast of characters with a unique look of art-nouveau splendor... Before McManus died, in 1954, ''Bringing Up Father'' made him two fortunes (the first was lost in the 1929 stock market crash). By that time, Jiggs's Irishness had faded—the new generation saw him as just a rich guy that liked to hang out with a regular crowd.<ref>[http://www.toonopedia.com/jiggs.htm ''Bringing Up Father''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527175027/https://www.webcitation.org/6fFZDSSMe?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/jiggs.htm Archived] from the original on February 12, 2016.</ref>

An uncredited script collaborator on the strip was McManus's brother, Charles W. McManus, who was 61 when he died August 31, 1941. He also had his own comic strips in the 1920s, ''Dorothy Darnit'' and ''Mr. Broad''.<ref>"Brother of George—Idea Man for 'Bringing Up Father' Cartoon". ''The New York Times'', September 1, 1941.</ref>

==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>

==Artists==
[[File:Bringingup531128.jpg|upright|thumb|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.]]
Between 1935 and 1954, McManus's assistant [[Zeke Zekley]] made a major contribution to the strip in both writing and art. Other artists, including Bill Kavanagh and Frank Fletcher, also contributed. When McManus died in 1954, King Features replaced Zekley with [[Vernon Greene]]. With Greene's death in 1965, Hal Campagna stepped in, and Frank Johnson (''[[Boner's Ark]]'') replaced Campagna in 1980. Hy Eisman ghosted the strip for a short time after Greene's death. King Features wanted him to take it over, but Eisman was close friends with Greene, and he was unable to agree to take the strip on.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cartoonician.com/getting-hy-on-comics-a-profile-of-hy-eisman/ |title=''A Profile of Hy Eisman'', Hogan's Alley #15 |access-date=November 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112131226/http://cartoonician.com/getting-hy-on-comics-a-profile-of-hy-eisman/ |archive-date=November 12, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The strip's popularity faded, and ''Bringing Up Father'' limped along until its 87-year run came to a close on May 28, 2000.

In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the [[Comic Strip Classics]] series of commemorative US [[postage stamps]]. ''Bringing Up Father'' went digital in 2007 when King Features made the strip available as one of the selections in its [[King Features Syndicate|DailyINK]] email package.

==International syndication==
In Mexico, the strip was titled ''Educando a Papá'', with Jiggs and Maggie being renamed as "Pancho" and "Ramona" respectively. In Chile, Jiggs was known as "Don Fausto". In Argentina, it was known as ''Trifón y Sisebuta'', and in Brazil as ''Pafúncio e Marocas''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-02-14 |title=Pafúncio e George McManus - História! |url=http://www.bricabrac.com.br/pafuncio_historia.htm |access-date=2023-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214164919/http://www.bricabrac.com.br/pafuncio_historia.htm |archive-date=February 14, 2010}}</ref> In Yugoslavia and Serbia it has been published as ''Porodica Tarana'' since 1935. In Turkey, the strip was published daily by ''[[Hürriyet]]'' until the late 1990s under the name ''Güngörmüşler'' (The Worldly-wiseds) with Jiggs renamed to [[Shaaban|Şaban]] and Maggie renamed to Tonton (darling). In [[Italy]], Jiggs and Maggie became ''Arcibaldo e Petronilla'' and the strip, published by the children magazine ''[[Corriere dei Piccoli]]'' since 1921, was very popular.

''Bringing Up Father'' still enjoys popularity in [[Norway]]. Known as ''Fiinbeck og Fia'', the strip was published weekly in the family journal ''Hjemmet'' from 1921 until the early 2000s; and a Christmas book with the strip has been published every year since 1930, in the last few decades mostly reprints of material produced by McManus in the 1940s and 1950s. A similar publication was also an annual event (from 1931 to 1977) in [[Sweden]], where the strip is known as ''Gyllenbom''. In [[Denmark]] the series went under the name ''Gyldenspjæt''. In [[Finland]], the strip was called ''Vihtori ja Klaara'' and appeared in the major daily ''[[Uusi Suomi]]'' from 1929 until the paper folded in 1991. In the Finnish version, Jiggs' favorite dish of corned beef and cabbage became ''lammaskaali'' (literally "mutton cabbage"), which under the name ''[[fårikål]]'' is actually a Norwegian national dish.

In Japan, ''Bringing Up Father'' was first published in April 1, 1923 in the ''[[Asahigraph|Asahi Graph]]'', as ''Oyaji kyōiku''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Woo |first1=Benjamin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pM44EAAAQBAJ&dq=oyaji+kyoiku+bringing+up+father&pg=PA55 |title=The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics |last2=Stoll |first2=Jeremy |date=2021-07-29 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-4968-3468-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Exner |first=Eike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Hw-EAAAQBAJ |title=Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History |date=2021-11-12 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-1-9788-2723-3 |language=en}}</ref> The strip was published daily in the magazine (interrupted by the [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake|Great Kantō earthquake]], resuming to be published weekly from November 14 afterwards) until 1940; its success inspired strips by Japanese comic artists, like Yutaka Asō's ''[[Nonkina Tōsan|Nonkina tōsan]]'' ("Easygoing daddy").<ref name=":0" />

==Maggie and Jiggs in other media==
===Stage===
[[File:Bringing Up Father 1914 play.JPG|thumb|180px|Maggie and Jiggs in a scene from the 1914 play.]]
[[Gus Hill]]'s production of ''Bringing Up Father'' opened on Broadway in 1914, with music composed by Frank H. Grey, lyrics by Elven E. Hedges, libretto by John P. Mulgrew and Thomas Swift, choreography by Edward Hutchinson, and directed by Frank Tannehill, Jr. Hill produced many more theatrical versions of the strip that toured the country, including ''Bringing Up Father in Florida'', ''Bringing Up Father on Broadway'', ''Bringing Up Father in Ireland'', ''Bringing Up Father Abroad'', and ''Bringing Up Father in Wall Street''.

''Bringing Up Father at the Seashore'' opened on Broadway at the Manhattan Opera House in 1921, but closed after 18 performances; a revised version reopened in 1928. Another of Hill's productions of ''Father'' opened at the Lyric Theatre in 1925. According to The Holloway Pages' history of the strip: "Reportedly, this version had Maggie following a fleeing Jiggs from Ireland to a yacht headed for Spain, but the story was halted frequently for various [[vaudeville]] acts. The show closed after 24 performances".<ref>[http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Jiggs.htm The Holloway Pages: ''Bringing Up Father'' page]</ref>

===Sheet music===
* "By the Susquehanna Shore" (from ''Bringing Up Father'', 1914)
* ''Bringing Up Father on Broadway'' (1919) - songs include: "The Lotus Club Rag", "Dry Those Tears", ""The Fair Irene, and "All for a Girl"
* "I'm Longing for a Pair of Irish Eyes" (from ''Bringing Up Father in Florida'', 1920)
* ''Bringing Up Father'' (1920 green cover, same design as earlier red cover) - songs include: "The Rose You gave me", "Why Don't They Let the Girlies go to Sea?", and "Let's Get the Irish over Here". PLUS: advice, jokes and magic tricks.
* ''Bringing Up Father in Wall Street'' (1921) - songs include: "Rose of My Heart", "Somebody's Darling Boy", "When That Mobile Boy Sings the Memphis Blues", "The Wonderful Way You Love", "I'm Free, Single, Disengaged", "Looking for Someone to Love", "There's No Fool Like an Old Fool", "My Dixie Rose", "Million Dollar Smile", and Just One Little Smile"
* ''Bringing Up Father Song Book'' (1922) - songs include: "Sweet Southern Lullaby", "Dear Old-Fashioned Mother", and  "China Doll"
* "They'll Never Bring Up Father 'Till They Tear Down Dinty Moore's" (1923)

===Radio===
''{{Main|Bringing Up Father (radio)}}''
Sponsored by [[Lever Brothers]], the ''[[Bringing Up Father (radio)|Bringing Up Father]]'' radio series aired on the [[Blue Network]] from July 1 to September 30, 1941, starring Mark Smith (1887–1944) as Jiggs and [[Agnes Moorehead]] as Maggie. Neil O'Malley also portrayed Jiggs. Their daughter Nora was played by Helen Shields and [[Joan Banks]]. Craig McDonnell (1907–1956) was heard in the role of Dinty Moore. The 30-minute program aired Tuesdays at 9pm.<ref name="dunning">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Bringing+Up+Father,comedy%22&pg=PA120 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=120 |edition=Revised |access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>

===Animation===
The following are [[silent film|silent]] [[animated cartoons]] based on ''Bringing Up Father'', all produced by International Film Service and released through [[Pathé Exchange]]:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7  |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/22/mode/2up |access-date=16 May 2020 |page=23}}</ref>
* ''Father Gets into the Movies'' (1916)
* ''Just Like a Woman'' (1916)
* ''A Hot Time in the Gym'' (1917)
* ''The Great Hansom Cab Mystery'' (1917)
* ''Music Hath Charms'' (1917)
* ''He Tries His Hand at Hypnotism'' (1917)
* ''The Stimulating Mrs. Barton'' (1918)
* ''Father's Close Shave'' (1918)
* ''Jiggs and the Social Lion'' (1918)
In 1924, a Chilean studio created a feature-length film entitled ''[[Vida y milagros de Don Fausto]]'' ("Life and Miracles of Jiggs"), which used the strip's characters (likely without authorization). This is the second oldest-known animated film made in the country.

In 1927, Norwegian filmmaker [[Ottar Gladtvet]] produced one of the country's earliest animated films, a commercial featuring Jiggs and Maggie titled ''Fiinbeck er rømt'' ("Jiggs Has Run Away"), in which Maggie purchases the finest tobacco Tiedemanns Tobakk AS has to offer in a bid to keep Jiggs from going out.<ref>https://filmarkivet.no/film/details.aspx?filmid=400449 Fiinbeck er rømt</ref>

===Live-action two-reel shorts===
[[File:Jiggs in Society (1920) - Ad.jpg|thumb|Ad for ''Jiggs in Society'' short]]
A series of live-action silent comedies featured comedian Johnny Ray as Jiggs, Margaret Cullington as Maggie and [[Laura La Plante]] as daughter Nora. Directed by Reggie Morris, these were produced by International Film Service and released through Pathé Exchange. Confusingly enough, a couple of the titles were duplicated from the earlier cartoons. This series included:
* ''Jiggs in Society'' (1920)
* ''Jiggs and the Social Lion'' (1920)
* ''Jiggs' Close Shave'' [aka ''Father's Close Shave''] (1920)

===Live-action feature films===
The following feature-length films were based on the strip:
* ''[[Bringing Up Father (1928 film)|Bringing Up Father]]'' (1928) [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]: Silent comedy directed by [[Jack Conway (filmmaker)|Jack Conway]], written by [[Frances Marion]] with titles by [[Ralph Spence (screenwriter)|Ralph Spence]], starring [[J. Farrell MacDonald]] as Jiggs, [[Polly Moran]] as Maggie, Gertrude Omstead as their daughter (renamed "Ellen"), and Jules Cowles and [[Marie Dressler]] as Mr. and Mrs. Dinty Moore.
* ''[[Vihtori ja Klaara]]'' ([[Finland]], 1939): The first sound comedy based on the strip, although the characters are speaking Finnish; directed by filmmaker [[Teuvo Tulio]].

The ''[[Jiggs and Maggie (film series)|Jiggs and Maggie]]'' film series, all released by [[Monogram Pictures]]:
 
* ''[[Bringing Up Father (1946 film)|Bringing Up Father]]'' (1946) directed by [[Edward F. Cline]] and written by Cline, Barney Gerard and Jerry Warner, starring [[Joe Yule]] as Jiggs, Renie Riano as Maggie, George McManus (as himself), [[Tim Ryan (actor)|Tim Ryan]] as the stingy and belligerent Dinty Moore, and Pat Goldin as the ever-silent Dugan.
* ''[[Jiggs and Maggie in Society]]'' (1948)
* ''[[Jiggs and Maggie in Court]]'' (1948)
* ''[[Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters]]'' (1949)
* ''[[Jiggs and Maggie Out West]]'' (1950)
The series was discontinued due to the death of Joe Yule in March 1950. Yule is the father of [[Mickey Rooney]], who expressed interest in reviving Jiggs onstage in the late 1980s. Both [[Martha Raye]] and [[Cloris Leachman]] were considered for the part of Maggie, but the project was never produced.

===Comic books===
* ''Bringing Up Father'' was a feature of [[David McKay Publications|David McKay]]'s ''King Comics'' title from No. 60 to No. 135 (1941–1947).
* ''Jiggs and Maggie'' [[Standard Comics]] (11 issues, 1949–1953)
* ''Jiggs and Maggie'' [[Harvey Comics]] (6 issues, 1953–1954)

==Collections and reprints==
[[Image:Jiggsmaggie.jpg|right|thumb|upright|This 1941 Dell comic featured reprints of 1936–38 strips.]]
* 1919–1934: [[Cupples & Leon]] produced 26 semi-annual [[daily comic strip|daily strip]] reprints in softcover books measuring 10" x 10". They also published two larger, hardcover editions; ''Bringing Up Father: The BIG Book'' in 1926 and ''Bringing Up Father: BIG Book No. 2'' in 1929.
* [[Whitman Publishing]] released ''Bringing Up Father:'' A [[Big Little Book]] in 1936.
* Charles Scribner's Sons published a hardcover anthology, ''Bringing Up Father: Starring Maggie and Jiggs'' in 1973. {{ISBN|0-517-16724-7}}
* Hyperion Press released the reprint volume ''Bringing Up Father: A Complete Compilation, 1913-1914'' in their "Hyperion Library of Classic American Comic Strips" series in 1977, available in both hardcover and paperback editions.
* In 1986 The Celtic Book Company released ''Jiggs Is Back'', a full-color, 64-page oversized trade paperback of Sunday strip reprints. {{ISBN|0-913666-82-3}}
* NBM reprinted the first two years of the daily strip in July 2009 as part of their "Forever Nuts" series: ''Forever Nuts Presents: Bringing Up Father''. {{ISBN|1-56163-556-1}}
* In November 2009 [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[The Library of American Comics]] [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] reprinted the cross-country tour storyline that ran from January 1939 to July 1940 as ''Bringing Up Father: From Sea to Shining Sea'' {{ISBN|1-60010-508-4}}, followed by ''Bringing Up Father: Of Cabbages and Kings'', IDW Publishing's [[The Library of American Comics]]. {{ISBN|978-1-61377-532-5}}

==Parodies and guest appearances==
* In issue #17 of ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'', [[Harvey Kurtzman]]'s story "Bringing Back Father", illustrated by [[Will Elder]] and [[Bernard Krigstein]], depicted Jiggs as the victim of [[domestic abuse]], bruised and bleeding after physical assaults by the domineering Maggie, who has struck Jiggs with thrown kitchen utensils and crockery.<ref>''Mad'' 17</ref> When Kurtzman died in 1993, slides from this parody were shown by [[Art Spiegelman]] at Kurtzman's memorial service in the Time-Warner building.
* In his book ''[[In the Shadow of No Towers]]'', Spiegelman drew himself as Jiggs and his wife as Maggie. He also included a reprint of a ''Bringing Up Father'' Sunday strip.<ref>Spiegelman, Art. ''In the Shadow of No Towers''.</ref>
* In the comic strip ''[[Arlo and Janis]]'' (March 17, 2006), Jiggs is invited to the home of Arlo and Janis for [[corned beef and cabbage]] in honor of the day. He enjoys himself immensely, and entertains his hosts with his stories, jokes and witticisms. Everyone has a happy [[St. Patrick's Day]].
* In [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[Power Pack]]'', Jiggs is the King of Elsewhere and receives a visit from [[Katie Power]]. Maggie is the Queen, wiser and more powerful than the King.<ref>Marvel, ''Power Pack'', Volume 1, #47, July 1989. Script by [[Jon Bogdanove]].</ref>
* Jiggs and Maggie renew their friendship with Walt Wallet in ''[[Gasoline Alley (comic strip)|Gasoline Alley]]'', by Jim Scancarelli, on April 30, 2013. This continues on August 10, 2018.

==References==
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==Sources==
* [[Dave Strickler|Strickler, Dave]]. ''Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index''. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995. {{ISBN|0-9700077-0-1}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Bringing Up Father}}
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/jiggs.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: ''Bringing Up Father'']
* [http://www.marklansdown.com/pinbacks/pages/strip-bringingupfather.html ''Bringing Up Father'' pinbacks]
* [http://www.nbmpub.com/fathernotes/index.html "''Bringing Up Father'': 1913–14 Annotations" by Allan Holtz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223092014/http://www.nbmpub.com/fathernotes/index.html |date=February 23, 2012}}

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