George McManus (January 23, 1884 - October 22, 1954) is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the "Maggie and Jiggs" characters in his syndicated comic strip, Bringing up Father. January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A cartoonist at work. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Bringing Up Father was a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 12, 1913 to May 28, 2000. ...

Born in Saint Louis, Missouri with an innate gift for drawing and a sense of humor, it led to his joining the art department of the St. Louis Republic newspaper at the age of sixteen. There, he created his first comic strip but in 1905 he left his hometown to accept a job in New York City with the prestigious New York World newspaper. Saint Louis (pronounced in English, in French), frequently spelled St. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... The New York World was a newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931. ...

At the New York World, McManus worked on a number of different comic strips but it wasn't until he joined the New York Journal American that he gained great success through the creation of the "Bringing up Father" comic strip. His comic strip would be syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate, and produced by McManus from 1913 until his death after which Vernon Greene took over. The New York Journal American was a newspaper purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1895 (at the time called the New York Morning Journal, then the New York Journal). ... King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ... Vernon Greene was a cartoonist known for illustrating The Shadow, The Masked Lady, Perry Mason, Polly and Her Pals, and Bringing up Father. ...

George McManus died in 1954 in Santa Monica, California and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in western Los Angeles County, California, USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Located in The Bronx, Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. ...

In 1995, the strip was one of twenty included in the "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative United States postage stamps. This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. ...