Bringing Up Father — buf370220

George McManus's long-running daily strip follows the nouveau-riche Jiggs navigating high society, here in four tight panels: two men gossip at a stage door about 'stage-door Johnnies'; a bejeweled woman is surrounded by hansom-cab drivers shouting 'HANSOM—HAN-SOM—HANSOM'; the joke turns on the drivers complimenting themselves, not her; and a small boy watches a lamplighter scale a post, dreaming aloud of such a job. McManus's line is fluid and confident—top hats, ruffled skirts, and crowd staging all rendered with practiced economy. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips syndicated globally, and its recurring cast, sequential panel rhythm, and integrated speech balloons helped establish the visual grammar that daily newspaper comics exported directly into the first comic books of the 1930s.