Funny Little Pair of Old Ink Drawn Cartoon Characters - Jiggs and Maggie British steam liner finely made cross-stitch on heavy

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

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

with a bit of irregularity to the glaze on one side

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 finely made cross-stitch on heavyWhat 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