Bringing Up Father — buf370109

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a rapid-fire comedy of reminiscence: a woman's false teeth flung at children, hat-wearing ladies blocking theatre views, young Jiggs hiding in a barrel while his grandmother patches his only trousers, and drummers ogling passing girls from a hotel stoop. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running gag strips in American newspaper history. His linework — plump, confident brush curves, dense crowd scenes, bold black spotting — shaped the visual shorthand that early comic-book artists would inherit wholesale. The strip's recurring immigrant-rises-to-riches premise gave daily papers a reliable anchor while teaching readers worldwide to parse sequential panels, speech balloons, and character-driven continuity as natural reading acts.