Bringing Up Father

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and by 1929 it ran in hundreds of papers worldwide. This four-panel daily follows Jiggs — top hat, loud suit, cane — as a friend invites him out for a night on the town. Jiggs ducks inside to tell his wife Maggie, who fills the third panel with a thunderous NO! The final panel shows Jiggs retreating, defeated. McManus's draftsmanship is elegant: rounded brushwork, crosshatched brick, expressive silhouettes. The strip's recurring push-pull between social aspiration and domestic authority made it a global phenomenon. Newspaper dailies like this one — sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring cast — established the visual syntax that early comic-book publishers would directly repackage and sell beginning in 1933.