Bringing Up Father — September 25, 1925

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs, a newly wealthy Irish-American who longs for his old working-class haunts. In this four-panel daily, Jiggs — top hat, checked suit, pearl necklace — wanders lonely while Maggie is away and resolves to visit his pal Jerry Hickey in jail. At the prison door a guard informs him the warden would also like to see Jerry: he escaped that morning. McManus's draftsmanship is precise and decorative, his speech balloons economical. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades and exemplifies the syndicated daily format whose panel-by-panel visual sequencing — inherited from Outcault and Dirks — directly shaped the grammar that early comic-book editors simply reprinted and bound.