Bringing Up Father — buf320313

George McManus's Bringing Up Father debuted in 1913 and ran for decades as one of the longest-lived gag strips in American newspaper syndication. This Sunday page from March 13, 1932 follows the eternal domestic comedy of Jiggs and Maggie: here Jiggs tries to dispose of an ugly Christmas tie Maggie gave him, tossing it from a window, mailing it anonymously to a Baron Upwell, only to have it boomerang back as the Baron's wife presents it proudly as her own new acquisition. McManus's draftsmanship — clean ruled panels, elegant Art Deco interiors, expressive rubber-limbed figures, and speech balloons precisely lettered — helped standardize the visual grammar that Sunday pages handed directly to the first comic books of the 1930s.