Bringing Up Father — buf370121

Four panels by George McManus show a woman gleefully cataloguing embarrassments from a man's past — a misspelled name in the newspaper, a sleepwalking neighbor whose credit ran out, a portrait the grandfather photographed that the aunt now owns only for its frame, and a punchline about dogs fleeing the yard. The strip's loose, rubbery linework and expressive open mouths are pure McManus: elegant hatching on backgrounds, characters who wobble with comic energy. *Bringing Up Father*, launched in 1913, ran for decades as one of the foundational American comic strips — its recurring cast, sequential panels, and integrated speech balloons helped codify the visual language that daily newspaper comics handed directly to the first comic book anthologies of the 1930s.