the Family It , in English “  Bringing Up Father  ” , often also indicated like “  Jiggs and Maggie  ” , of the name of its main characters, is a series of cartoon of George McManus, published between the January 12th 1913 and the May 28th 2000 by the King Features Syndicate.
Il acts of traditional of the American comic-strip .

Several authors followed one another on this series:

• George McManus, of 1913 with its death, in 1954 (assisted a long time by Zeke Zekley)
• Vernon Greene, of 1954 with its death in 1965
• Hall Campagna, of 1965 with 1980
• Frank Johnson, of 1980 to 2000

Cinema

The Family It knew many film adaptations:

• 1915 : Bringing Up Father , by Larry Semon
• 1928: Bringing Up Father , by Jack Conway
• 1946: Bringing Up Father , by Edward F. Cline
• 1947: Jiggs and Maggie in Society , by Edward F. Cline
• 1948: Jiggs and Maggie in Short , by William Beaudine and Edward F. Cline
• 1949: Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters , by William Beaudine
• 1950: Jiggs and Maggie Out West , by William Beaudine

Summary

Jiggs is an American of Irish origin which becomes suddenly rich. He wants despite everything to preserve his life of man of the people and to continue to attend his friends with the bar. His wife, Maggie, only aspire to perfect her social rise.

Offenses of initiates

The September 15th 1948, after ten years of investigation, the prosecutor of the state of New York announces that it succeeded in deciphering the code which hides behind the boards of Bringing Up Father. Indeed, since years, F.N. Goldsmith, a very important stockbroker, modified the texts of the strips of McManus (which could prove that it was foreign with this practice) to inform the initiates in which field it was advisable to invest for the next day.

Source: Sadoul, Jacques, 93 years of data base , ED. I have Lu, 1989

Money

McManus will make fortune with this comic twice: he will be millionaire first once until the crisis of 1929 does all to him to lose. He will however be with new also rich and will die millionaire, which is not the ordinary destiny of an author of cartoon.

Titrate

• the original title, Bringing Up Father (literally " By Raising Père") is founded on that of the film Bringing up Baby .

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