Bringing Up Father — buf330618

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest-lived newspaper strips in history. This Sunday page, dated June 18, 1933, follows the eternal domestic war between Jiggs — a nouveau-riche Irishman who would rather play pool and go fishing — and his socially ambitious wife Maggie, who orders him out to do actual business. Panel by panel, Jiggs visits offices where every 'hardworking' businessman is asleep, playing golf, or doing jigsaw puzzles; the joke lands in the final tier when Jiggs himself is caught singing 'Sweet Adaline' in a bar. McManus's clean ink line, rounded figures, and precisely composed speech balloons helped codify the visual grammar that Sunday broadsheet pages — direct ancestors of the comic book format — handed down to every cartoonist who followed.