Bringing Up Father — buf370107

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie in McManus's trademark art-deco pen line: a man hauling a harp no one asked for, a cousin hiding as a scarecrow through the whole war, an uncle's "hatchet face" perched absurdly on a penny-farthing bicycle, and Maggie's escalating exasperation culminating in a shouted *Great Heavens!* George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running daily strips in American newspaper history. Its recurring domestic squabbles, social-climbing jokes, and expressive speech balloons helped standardize the visual grammar — timed panel rhythm, reaction beats, character consistency — that publishers would soon repackage as comic books in the late 1930s. McManus's clean crosshatching and architectural backgrounds influenced a generation of cartoonists who followed.