Bringing Up Father — 23 July 1929

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features Syndicate in 1913, making it one of the longest-running and most widely translated daily strips in newspaper history. This four-panel daily follows the eternal domestic comedy of Jiggs, a nouveau-riche Irishman in top hat and checkered vest, and his formidable wife Maggie. Here Jiggs learns that his friend Dinty wants him to meet his wife — a luxury Jiggs envies, since Maggie bars him from bringing anyone home. Sitting dejected on a park bench, he is left wondering, until a battered stranger explains he mentioned Jiggs's name to *his* wife — and the fight began. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework, elegant balloon placement, and perfectly timed four-beat punchline structure exemplify the visual grammar that newspaper daily strips codified and that early comic books would directly inherit and repackage.