Bringing Up Father — buf370206

Four panels trace neighborhood vignettes narrated in caption boxes: Toughy Kilmen locked out of his yard and jailed; Lizzie Mopp's hair-dye flooding Mr. Dinnigan's floor below; the McGlare family crowding a window except one son perpetually in jail; the Lampy kids waiting on the corner for a father who must be carried home. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making Jiggs and Maggie among the longest-running characters in strip history. McManus's fluid Art Nouveau linework, crowd staging, and deadpan caption-driven structure typify the daily newspaper strip format that directly seeded the reprint comic books of the 1930s — the physical anthology format that became the modern comic book.