Bringing Up Father — buf370302

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, as his wife Maggie insists on an opera outing. He visits ticket speculator Joe Jip, who quotes $32.50 a seat for the 32nd row—next to Dinty Moore. Jiggs reports back: same row, five dollars extra because they're beside Dinty Moore. Maggie kills the plan. McManus draws in his signature art-nouveau-inflected line: ornate wallpaper, spats, a striped waistcoat, expressive hands. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for nearly ninety years, and its daily and Sunday pages exemplify the visual grammar—sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, recurring cast—that newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic books of the late 1930s.