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pencil and ink on thin cardboard
58,5 x 15,5 cm
Daily comic strip of 17/05/1923 for "Bringing Up Father". made by George McManus and appeared for the first time on January 12, 1913, "Bringing Up Father" tells the vicissitudes of the spouses Jiggs and Maggie, two Irish immigrants who suddenly, after a life spent one as a bricklayer and the other as a washerwoman, they become wealthy thanks to a lucky lottery win. The great American myth, that of the poor who has the opportunity to get rich. In this context, McManus triggers a whole series of situations, misadventures and gags that will make the strip's fortune, which over time has become the cartoonist symbol of the eternal struggle between the sexes, but also a magnifying glass of the contradictions of society. American. Elegant, refined, caricatured but at the same time splendid, the style of McManus is still today one of the most shining examples of comic art. Signed and dated.
58,5 x 15,5 cm
Daily comic strip of 17/05/1923 for "Bringing Up Father". made by George McManus and appeared for the first time on January 12, 1913, "Bringing Up Father" tells the vicissitudes of the spouses Jiggs and Maggie, two Irish immigrants who suddenly, after a life spent one as a bricklayer and the other as a washerwoman, they become wealthy thanks to a lucky lottery win. The great American myth, that of the poor who has the opportunity to get rich. In this context, McManus triggers a whole series of situations, misadventures and gags that will make the strip's fortune, which over time has become the cartoonist symbol of the eternal struggle between the sexes, but also a magnifying glass of the contradictions of society. American. Elegant, refined, caricatured but at the same time splendid, the style of McManus is still today one of the most shining examples of comic art. Signed and dated.