Bringing Up Father — buf370301

George McManus's long-running daily strip follows Jiggs, a newly wealthy Irishman forever caught between his wife Maggie's social ambitions and his own plebeian loyalties. In these four panels Jiggs frets about joining 'the Swanky Club' to please Maggie, receives a formal visit announcing his membership, then answers a telephone call revealing the club has just been raided by police — members fined $50. McManus's line is fluid and elegant, his figures rubbery with expressiveness. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the earliest strips to build comedy through a fixed cast and serialized domestic tension — the very structural logic that newspaper comic pages handed directly to the comic book format when anthology titles began reprinting such dailies in the early 1930s.