Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner In my younger days I

In my younger days I spent some time as an art critic

perhaps most of all this orange figure in the foreground--apparently being spewed into existence by the larger

just below that fabulous bowtie and in between the floating shirt buttons-- what a perfect distillation of the feel of a heart a'flutter in springtime

this piece has been repaired: there is a crack that runs across her face and across his front

with great sculptural form mimicking a bunch of grapes and terrific drippy glazing

Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner In my younger days IWhat really sold me on this pair was the profile expression and posture of the woman, with hand on her hip, though this funny little gangster looking man, I'd guess with a cigar in his mouth, is pretty fun, too. I've learned from a helpful customer that they are characters Jiggs and Maggie, from "Bringing Up Father" an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus, which launched in 1913. (More below). These iterations were certainly drawn