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pencil, ink and watercolor on thin cardboard
41 x 30,5 cm
Sunday half comic strip from 10/24/1920 for "Bringing Up Father". made by George McManus and appearing for the first time on January 12, 1913, "Bringing Up Father" narrates 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, it is the great American myth, that of the poor man who has the opportunity to get rich. In this context McManus triggers a whole series of situations, misadventures and gags that will make the fortune of the strip, which over time has become the cartoonish symbol of the eternal struggle between the sexes, but also a magnifying glass of the contradictions of society American. Elegant, refined, caricatural but at the same time splendid, McManus' style is still one of the most shining examples of comic art today. The watercolor coloring made by McManus himself on very few specimens is very rare. Small part missing in the upper left corner. Dated on the back.
41 x 30,5 cm
Sunday half comic strip from 10/24/1920 for "Bringing Up Father". made by George McManus and appearing for the first time on January 12, 1913, "Bringing Up Father" narrates 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, it is the great American myth, that of the poor man who has the opportunity to get rich. In this context McManus triggers a whole series of situations, misadventures and gags that will make the fortune of the strip, which over time has become the cartoonish symbol of the eternal struggle between the sexes, but also a magnifying glass of the contradictions of society American. Elegant, refined, caricatural but at the same time splendid, McManus' style is still one of the most shining examples of comic art today. The watercolor coloring made by McManus himself on very few specimens is very rare. Small part missing in the upper left corner. Dated on the back.