Bringing Up Father — 1925-01-30

Four panels track Jiggs and Maggie through a familiar domestic comedy: Maggie is singing at home, driving Jiggs to desperate measures—he'll invite neighbors he dislikes just to silence her. A visit from Mrs. Jiggs follows, then a social exchange in which someone asks how her singing is progressing; the strip closes with a character eagerly agreeing to 'sing for us.' McManus draws in his signature art-nouveau-inflected line, with exaggerated poses and expressive balloon lettering. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first recurring daily strips to build serialized character identity—Jiggs the lace-curtain-Irish social climber, Maggie the aspirant wife—helping establish the recurring cast and the gag-per-strip rhythm that newspaper syndicates would standardize and that early comic-book publishers would directly repackage.