Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner just below that fabulous bowtie

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

but it definitely has a mid-century brutalist feel

finely made cross-stitch on heavy linen pillowcases feature grids of wonderfully detailed images: figures engaged in a variety of activities (a gardener sowing seeds

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

England with Geoffrery Whiting

Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner just below that fabulous bowtieWhat 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