Bringing Up Father — buf361230

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a run of tall-tale domestic storytelling: relatives who bungled streetcar conducting, a father who monopolized the newspaper until he fell asleep, a neighbor whose penthouse slid off a bluff and took six months to repair, and a beat cop too timid to pass the house while Jiggs's brothers were home. McManus draws in his signature rounded ink line — chandelier-lit parlor interiors, rubble-strewn hillside chaos, a helmeted cop edging past a barrel. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its forty-year run made it one of the first comic strips syndicated globally, demonstrating how recurring characters, sequential panels, and integrated speech balloons could sustain a readership across continents — the daily newspaper page that directly seeded the comic-book format.