Bringing Up Father — buf370128

Four panels tracking a winter-day walk: Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, and his sharp-tongued wife Maggie reminisce about blizzards, an Arctic-obsessed nephew buried under twenty blankets, and a neighbor who saw double upon meeting the Hogan kids. The strip closes with the two pausing at a tree trunk bearing their carved names — a surprisingly tender grace note. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running American daily strips. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework, expressive silhouettes, and domestic sparring established the recurring-character daily strip as a narrative form — the direct forerunner of the comic book page.