Bringing Up Father — 1925-05-05

Four panels show Jiggs at a restaurant table: ordered by his doctor to eat lightly, he requests milk and a cracker instead of the steak he craves. A companion spots a nearby diner in visible distress—'too late for a doctor'—prompting Jiggs to abandon all restraint and order soup, fish, steak, potatoes, onions, tea, and peas. When told his appetite seems poor, he declines dessert—then announces he's heading home for corned beef and cabbage, knocking himself dizzy with anticipation. McManus's clean ink line, expressive takes, and star-burst impact symbols show the daily strip at full command of its own vocabulary. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for decades, its collected reprints among the earliest proof that newspaper comics could sustain book-length publication.