IDW will release a 272-page hardcover Bringing Up Father collection under its Library of American Comics imprint in November.  The collection will include all the daily and color Sunday strips from January 2, 1939 to July 7, 1940, comprising the “From Sea to Shining Sea” storyline which takes Jiggs, Maggie, Nora, and Nora’s husband Lord Nevere Worthnotten on a cross-country trip to celebrate Nora’s marriage. 

The 11” x 10” collection is designed by Dean Mullaney and edited by Bruce Canwell.  Canwell and Brian Walker will contribute a text essay with a comprehensive view of creator George McManus and his characters. 

The Bringing Up Father newspaper strip ran from January of 1913 until 2000.

NBM is bringing out a collection of the first two years of the b/w daily Bringing Up Father strips in May (see “NBM Does Bringing Up Father”).