{"id":242,"date":"2022-05-12T15:12:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:06:38","slug":"1941-comic-strips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/1941-comic-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"1941 Comic Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Bringing Up Father” (01\/17\/1941)
\nby George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
\n23.25 x 5.75 in.<\/p>\n

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\n“Little Mary Mixup” (03\/14\/1941)
\nby Robert Moore Brinkerhoff (1880-1958)
\n20 x 6 in.<\/p>\n

Brinkerhoff created his only comic strip, ‘Little Mary Mixup’ in 1917. This comic about a mischievous little girl evolved as time went by. By wartime, Little Mary had grown up and even joined the fight against the Nazis. The strip ran until February 2, 1957 (a few days before I was born).<\/p>\n

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\n“Bringing Up Father” (06\/07\/1941)
\nby George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
\n23.25 x 5.75 in.
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\n“Bringing Up Father” (09\/06\/1941)
\nby George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
\n23.25 x 5.75 in.
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\n“Bringing Up Father” (09\/14\/1940)
\nby George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
\n23.25 x 16.5 in.
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\n“Bringing Up Father” (11\/10\/1940)
\nby George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
\n23.25 x 5.75 in.
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\n“Bringing Up Father” (12\/10\/1940)
\nby George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005)
\n23.25 x 5.75 in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Bringing Up Father” (01\/17\/1941) by George McManus (1884-1954) and Zeke Zekley (1915-2005) 23.25 x 5.75 in. “Little Mary Mixup” (03\/14\/1941) by Robert Moore Brinkerhoff (1880-1958) 20 x 6 in. Brinkerhoff created his only comic strip, ‘Little Mary Mixup’ in 1917. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}