Bringing Up Father — buf361231

Four panels of George McManus's long-running daily strip follow Jiggs—blocky, bowler-hatted, eternally nostalgic—holding court at a restaurant table while reminiscing about the old neighborhood: Dugan's boiler works, Aunt Ivy singing, the Hennigan kids waiting for supper, and a sister whose eye met a keyhole at the wrong moment. McManus draws in a bold, clean line with careful crosshatching and lively crowd scenes; his characters emote through exaggerated posture as much as dialogue. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips to build comedy on a recurring domestic situation across years of continuity, helping establish the conventions—panel grids, speech balloons, strip-length comic timing—that newspaper syndicates exported directly into the first comic books of the 1930s.