Bringing Up Father — buf370227

Four daily panels by George McManus, dated 2-27 in the strip itself. Jiggs—squat, top-hatted, pug-nosed—counsels a lovelorn younger man to telephone his estranged wife. The call goes sweetly: the woman weeps with happiness, Jiggs congratulates himself that her crying will stop. Panel four collapses the sentiment: a street musician serenades with *My Heart's Too Small to Hold All My Love for You* while Jiggs, umbrella in hand, mutters "Rats!" McManus's ligne claire draftsmanship—Art Nouveau curlicues on gowns, crisply hatched brickwork, expressive silhouettes—had run in Hearst papers since 1913, making *Bringing Up Father* one of the longest-lived comic strips in American syndication and a direct ancestor of the comic-book page format.