Past Event

George McManus' Maggie and Jiggs: The Comics as Social History

A Road Scholar Program by Charles Fanning

Charles Fanning presents this narrated power-point survey of the famous comic strip Bringing Up Father, in which George McManus created a vivid slice of American life: the contentious nature of movement up the social ladder for an Irish-American couple. The strip ran for over forty years.

This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Sheila Corrigan, 815.727.0994.