A press release from NBM Publishing alerts us to the arrival
in stores of the third and latest in the Forever Nuts series of classic
screwball strips, namely George McManus’
Bringing up Father (192 11x8-inch landscape pages, b/w; hardcover, $24.95).
The century’s second longest running daily strip (Mutt and Jeff is first, I ween), “Jiggs,” as the strip is
sometimes called (whenever not being denominated “Jiggs and Maggie”), contains
some of the finest art deco drawing of the age, here, meticulously restored. And
this edition carries an introduction by Yrs Trly, a foreword by comics curator Bill Blackbeard, and notes by comics
historian Allen Holtz.
And just on
the horizon, another Jiggs reprint — this one from IDW; subtitled “From Sea to
Shining Sea” (272 11x10-inch pages in color; hardcover, $49.99), it recycles a
classic McManus sequence that lasted for more than a year during which he took
his characters all around the country, painstakingly rendering the familiar
locales of notable American cities in recognizable detail. For an exacting
appreciation of McManus’ art and Jiggs’ place in the history of the medium,
visit the Usual Place
and consult Harv’s Hindsights for the happy month of October 2009.
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