Bringing Up Father — buf370120

Four panels follow the O'Ginnity wedding's chaotic aftermath: broken crockery flies in panel one, a brawl erupts over who was best man in panel two, the mismatched bride towers over her tiny groom before wedding guests in panel three, and panel four closes on Aunt Susie sewing while Uncle hunts horseshoe nails to hold up his trousers. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making Jiggs and Maggie among the longest-running characters in comics history. McManus's fluid brushwork, exaggerated scale for comic effect, and tightly timed panel-to-panel rhythm exemplify the daily newspaper strip format that directly seeded the first comic book anthologies of the 1930s.