CREATOR

Name: George McManus.
Personal dates: Born 1884 in Missouri, USA. Died 1954 in California, USA.
Other creations
: Bringing Up Father, Their Only Child.
Successors
: Hal Campagna, Bill Cavanagh, Frank Fletcher, Val Greene.
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MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1916 but was actually created 3 years before, i.e. simultaneously with Bringing Up Father. Stopped in 1944.

The series bears clear resemblance to Bringing Up Father especially in drawing style. It is a humouristic - and slightly romantic - strip featuring a married couple, the goodlooking housewife Rosie and her hardworking husband Beau.
The series chiefly functioned as a so-called comic strip topper to Bringing Up Father between 1930 and 1944. The term means that it was situated right above the other on the newspaper page. This position caused a special mixing of the two series in April, 1938, when Beau absentmindedly climbed down into the first panel of Bringing Up Father only to arrive in Maggie's and Jiggs' living room.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

Rosie

Beau

 

 

GALLERY

 

 

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