Bringing Up Father — 23 October 1925

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* runs four panels: a woman tells Jiggs that Professor Clef is coming to play piano; Jiggs dresses; he reasons that musicians wear long hair to charm women, so he won't be outdone—he'll wear his wig; arriving wild-haired, he boasts his crop of hair will make Clef envious, only for the actual Prof. Clef to appear as a near-bald man who promptly bites him—'OWK!' McManus's line work is fluid and economical, his speech balloons organically shaped, his comic timing built entirely through posture and expression. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades and exemplifies how syndicated daily comics codified the visual grammar—sequential panels, recurring characters, integrated lettering—that directly fed the anthology comic books of the 1930s.