George McManus’ BRINGING UP FATHER next in Forever Nuts

In May 2009, NBM Publishing brings back one of the 20th century’s great comic strips. George McManus’ BRINGING UP FATHER is the third and latest in  NBM’s FOREVER NUTS series of classic screwball strips.

In 1913, cartoonist George McManus started a comic strip about Jiggs and Maggie, a lower-class couple who came into money. “While the snobbish Maggie and beautiful daughter Nora (referred to various 
times as Katy and Mamie in the strip’s early days) constantly try to ’bring up’ Father to his new social position,” comics expert Clark Holloway has said, “Jiggs can think of nothing finer than sitting 
down at Dinty Moore’s restaurant to finish off several dishes of corned beef and cabbage, followed by a night out with the boys from the old neighborhood. The clash of wills that ensued often resulted 
in flying rolling-pins, smashed crockery, and broken vases, all aimed in the general direction of Jiggs’s skull.”

This classic strip, BRINGING UP FATHER, became the 20th century’s second longest running strip.

Now, FOREVER NUTS presents all the dailies of this classic comic strip’s first two years, many of which have not been reprinted since they first appeared nearly a century ago. Discover why McManus became known as one of the greats in the field. 

George McManus’ BRINGING UP FATHER will be a jacketed hardcover, 11″ x 6 ½ inches, with black-and-white interior art –  the same handsome format as the previous FOREVER NUTS books, Mutt and Jeff and Happy Hooligan.