Bringing Up Father — buf370210

Three panels track the slapstick reminiscences of Jiggs and Maggie, George McManus's long-running Irish-immigrant couple. The first panel shows a uniformed figure at a door; the second erupts into a crowd chasing a fire engine through an old neighborhood, figures tumbling in McManus's characteristically loose, energetic line; the third settles into a poker table where a man clutching cards mutters "I have nothin'" against Jiggs's triumphant "Well!" McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running American comic strips. Its domestic comedy, expressive speech balloons, and panel-to-panel rhythm directly shaped the visual conventions that newspaper syndicates exported into the first comic books of the 1930s.