George McManus

George McManus (January 23, 1884 – October 22, 1954) is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Maggie and Jiggs, characters in his syndicated comic strip, "Bringing up Father".

Born in St. Louis, Missouri with an innate gift for drawing and a sense of humor, he was 16 when he joined the art department of the "St. Louis Republic", where he created his first comic strip. In 1905 he headed for New York City and a job with the prestigious "New York World", where he worked on several short-lived strips, including "Nibsy the Newsboy", "Panhandle Pete", "Let George Do It" and "The Newlyweds". [Don Markstein's Toonopedia [http://www.toonopedia.com/nibsy.htm Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland] ] At the "New York Journal American" he gained great success with the creation of "Bringing up Father". Syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate, it was produced by McManus from 1913 until his death, when Vernon Greene took over.

George McManus died in 1954 in Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative United States postage stamps.

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