Bringing Up Father — buf370119

Four panels narrate a string of nostalgic reminiscences: Clancy's Chowder Party greeted by city officials, the extravagant coiffure of Pretty Mollie Malone, Jerry Gowan's towering stack of hats, and finally Jiggs's cousin Hattie, who dies of fright after being shown the family album. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running daily strips in syndication history. McManus's thick, elegant linework — influenced by his earlier exposure to Art Nouveau — gave the strip a visual refinement rare among contemporaries. The recurring gag structure, sequential panel flow, and consistent cast that strips like this perfected directly shaped the format that early comic-book publishers would repackage and sell beginning in the mid-1930s.