Bringing Up Father — buf370115

Four panels of McManus's long-running *Bringing Up Father* move through a string of neighborhood anecdotes: a boy who couldn't read his own school letter, a sore uncle steadying himself against a barber-pole lamp post, a large woman at a beach recital, and young "Satchel-Face" Hogan's sudden recovery once his mother's medicine arrived. McManus's line is clean and confident — rounded figures, crisp cross-hatching, bold outlines. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first daily strips to sustain recurring characters across decades, helping establish the vocabulary — sequential panels, integrated dialogue, consistent visual personalities — that newspaper comics passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.