Bringing Up Father — buf370208

George McManus's long-running daily strip follows Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irishman forever tugged between his wife Maggie's social ambitions and his love of corned beef and old pals. These four panels traffic in nostalgic ribbing: a pompous neighbor's watch-chain, Dan Druff's hapless horse demolishing a glue factory in a cascade of flying debris, children caught wearing their mother's clothes, and a boy's dog routing six cats through a parlor. McManus's line is fluid and decorative, his chaos rendered with almost elegant clutter. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* helped standardize the daily four-panel strip format and the recurring domestic cast — formal building-blocks that early comic-book editors would simply repackage and staple.