Review: Brings Back Memories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
I remembered reading Jiggs' adventures in the comic section of the newspaper when i was a kid. When I saw this collection was available for Kindle I grabbed it. I am happy to say I was not disappointed. Although I read the strip from the 1960s until it ended, there were 50 years of strips before I even started.In case you are not familiar, this un-PC strip dates back to the second decade of the 20th century. Jiggs was an Irish laborer who wins a million dollar lottery. His shrewish wife Maggie and his daughter now aspire to high society, while Jiggs wants to knock back a few beers with his old pals at the bar. Wife and daughter constantly try to "bring up father" in a social sense. The humor usually involves Jiggs putting one over on the stuffy society folk or his wife knocking him on the head with a rolling pin. Funny stuff, but probably unacceptable today.