Bringing Up Father — buf370303

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest-lived American comic strips. This four-panel daily from March 3, 1937 follows Jiggs, the socially awkward Irish-American nouveau riche, as he tries to escape a parade of titled visitors—Lord Dunk among them—slipping out the back before more 'pests show up,' only to be ambushed by Lord Coffey, Lord Dunk's uncle. McManus's art is immediately recognizable: fluid Art Deco linework, elegantly dressed women with improbable hair, and male characters in formal wear rendered with vaudeville timing. Speech balloons carry all the comic momentum across bare, efficiently staged panels. McManus was among the artists who standardized the daily strip's visual grammar—recurring cast, sequential panels, dialogue balloons—forms that directly shaped the first comic books of the late 1930s.