Bringing Up Father — April 1, 1925

Four panels track Jiggs's scheme gone wrong: he steals a vase, planning to pawn it for forty dollars and fund a trip to the ball; the taxi driver obliges; a pawnbroker kills the plan, declaring the vase a worthless imitation; Jiggs, cabfare unpaid, ends the strip pointed toward a jail sign. McManus's line is fluid and confident—checkered taxi, top-hatted figures, expressive silhouettes—with speech balloons that move dialogue cleanly across panels. *Bringing Up Father*, launched in 1913, ran for decades and was among the first strips collected into book form, directly seeding what became the comic book. McManus refined the visual grammar of recurring characters, sequential gags, and balloon-driven pacing that cartoonists still use today.