Bringing Up Father — buf370223

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a domestic scene that pivots from self-recrimination to flattery to bemused relief. Jiggs, in his signature tuxedo and top hat, sits across from Maggie as she laments the class gap of their early days; an embrace in panel two dissolves her tears; by panel four Jiggs is at his desk, deadpan, asking what comes next. McManus draws with clean, rounded linework, exaggerated emotive postures, and speech balloons that crowd every panel — a signature density. Launched in 1913 by George McManus, *Bringing Up Father* was syndicated globally for decades, its recurring cast and sequential panel grammar directly shaping what would coalesce, by the late 1930s, into the American comic book format.