Bringing Up Father — buf361221

Four panels show Jiggs alone on a sofa, chuckling over a family photo album and mocking a whiskered in-law who looks like he's 'hiding behind a floor mop.' His wife Maggie and a laughing companion then share the album, building to the payoff: the ridiculous-looking child in the photograph is Jiggs himself — confirmed by his stunned single-word reaction, *'Huh?'* George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913 for King Features Syndicate, running it nearly four decades. His clean Art Nouveau linework, elegant cross-hatching, and precisely timed panel rhythm made the strip a model of daily comic pacing. These syndicated dailies — reproduced, trimmed, and stapled — were literally the raw material from which the first comic books were assembled in the early 1930s.