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The Pioneers
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Bringing Up Father
Cover to booh collection of 'Bringing Up Father' (Cupples and Leon, 1991).
Yet, by far the most popular of the early strip genres was the domestic comedy. Commonly, these stories had political undercurrents, and articulated the class tensions of the day - especially when it came to immigrant or minority communities. Most famously, George McManus's 'Bringing up Father' (1913) focused on the marital conflicts that ensued when an Irish couple win a fortune on the horses: the wife adapts to a nouveau riche existence, but her husband slides back into his low-class origins and the comforts of Dinty Moore's Saloon. Similarly class-conscious, though in a gentler vein, were Fred Opper's 'Happy Hooligan' (1900), about an Irish tramp (an eternal loser with a heart of gold); and Abie Hershfield's 'Abie the Agent' (1914), which depicted the milieu of a Jewish middle-class businessman.
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