George McManus' Maggie and Jiggs: The Comics as Social History
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.
Charles Fanning earned his PhD in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Professor Emeritus at SIUC. His research combines intellectual and literary history, especially related to Irish-American immigrants. Among his twelve books is Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (1978), which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, and The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction (2000). Professor Fanning was named SIUC Outstanding Scholar in 2004.
