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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Bringing Up Father |
 | | He remembered it years later, when, after a string of well-received comics for the Pulitzer papers (including, among others, Nibsy the Newsboy and The Newlyweds), he was working for King Features and needed a theme for a new strip. |
 | | On January 12, 1913, he debuted Bringing Up Father, about an Irishman named Jiggs, who doesn't understand why his ascension to wealth means he can't hang out with his friends, and his nagging, social-climbing wife, Maggie. |
 | | Jiggs and Maggie were never great comic book stars. |
| www.toonopedia.com /jiggs.htm (529 words) |
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