Bringing Up Father — buf370205

Four panels of George McManus's long-running daily strip follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber, as he stumbles over the cat "Tabby" at the door, then tumbles into nostalgic reverie with a companion: the old restaurant Dinty's with its towering bread baskets, a barbershop-quartet memory on a street corner, and a joke about overdressed Sunday children making traffic signals unnecessary. McManus's line is fluid and confident—spotted blacks, crosshatched patterns on dresses, exaggerated open mouths for exclamation. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, its recurring characters and sequential panel grammar helping establish conventions that newspaper comic strips passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.