{"id":19571,"date":"2017-12-26T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T14:24:34","slug":"merry-christmas-from-george-mcmanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19571","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from George McManus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I came across this Christmas art by George McManus this morning at The Bristol Board<\/a> (where you can see a larger version of it<\/a>).\u00a0 The art which features McManus’ character Jiggs from his beloved comic strip Bringing Up Father<\/em> sure brought back a lot of good memories.<\/p>\n

I loved reading Bringing Up Father<\/em> when I was a kid. And I wasn’t alone.\u00a0 Bringing Up Father<\/em> was published in newspapers\u00a0for 87 years, from January 12, 1913, to May 28, 2000!\u00a0 It spawned plays, (on and off Broadway), a radio series, 9 animated silent shorts, three live-action two reel shorts, several live-action feature films, three different comic book series as well as books collecting and reprinting the newspaper strips.<\/p>\n

While the strips were funny, McManus’ art was a joy and the combination of the two were impossible (at least for this guy) not to love.\u00a0 I had a chance to purchase a strip or two (even a Sunday page) back in my college days when I hung out at Jim Ivey’s Cartoon Museum.\u00a0 Sadly, they were out of my price range, but I did enjoy the chance to hold the originals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this Christmas art by George McManus this morning at The Bristol Board (where you can see a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19572,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions\/19572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}