Bringing Up Father — buf370118

George McManus's long-running daily follows the henpecked Jiggs as he reminisces with wife Maggie about her brother wearing a stiff collar to the theatre — a four-panel gag that spirals through street-corner newsboy Timmy McCann bellowing *"Ex-tree!"* so deafeningly that neighbors paid him to stop, then lands on young Binny inheriting his brother's outgrown clothes and catching a cold on the clothesline-laden tenement stoop. McManus's line is fluid and economical: rubber-limbed figures, precise cityscapes, wordless physical comedy in the final panel. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* exemplifies how the American newspaper daily — continuous characters, sequential panels, integrated lettering — established every structural convention the comic book would later inherit wholesale.