Bringing Up Father (Stage Adaptation)

This postcard documents a 1914 theatrical adaptation of *Bringing Up Father*, the comic strip created by George McManus that debuted in 1913. The strip's humor centered on Jiggs, an Irish immigrant who strikes it rich, and his wife Maggie, who pursues social climbing. The stage production brought McManus's characters to live performance. The strip's rapid success across newspapers demonstrated the growing commercial appetite for serialized humor and recurring characters. *Bringing Up Father* helped establish the visual and narrative conventions that would become essential to comic strips and later comic books: distinct personalities, ongoing domestic situations, and visual gags that translated across multiple media platforms.