biography of George MCMANUS (1884-1954)

Birth place: St. Louis, MO

Death place: Hayward, CA

Addresses: NYC; Hollywood, Hayward, CA

Profession: Painter, illustrator, cartoonist

Studied: Roanoke Col. (hon. degree)

Member: SI

Comments: Creator of the internationally popular comic strips, Bringing Up Father and Maggie and Jiggs (1912). His lead character, Jiggs, was painted on the noses of bomber squadrons during both world wars. Later, on the Senate floor, an impassioned Senator M.N. Neely declared that McManus and his character, Jiggs, could be "as eternal as the everlasting hills."

Sources: WW31; Hughes, Artists in California, 371; Famous Artists & Writers (1949)