Bringing up Father: Series Number 17, 1930

George McManus, a son of Irish immigrants, created the American syndicated comic strip Bringing Up Father in 1913. The strip follows the Irish working-class immigrant Jiggs and his wife, Maggie, as they navigate new-found wealth. McManus infused his strip with nuanced meanings, playing on early 20th-century themes of ethnic stereotyping and immigrant assimilation, the accumulation of wealth, social striving, and the American work ethic.