Bringing Up Father — 17 February 1925

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and by the 1920s Jiggs and Maggie were among the most recognized figures in American print culture. This four-panel daily shows Jiggs complaining that Maggie refuses to speak to him — then, when he tries to broker a truce, she tells him to shut up. He pivots to the family cat ('Come here'), and the final panel finds him slumped in a corner, the cat having presumably rebuffed him too. McManus's line is fluid and precise: decorative wallpaper, a hanging lantern, Maggie's elaborate dress rendered with confident cross-hatching. His integration of speech balloons into composed architectural space helped codify the visual grammar that daily strips handed directly to the first comic books of the 1930s.