Bringing Up Father — buf370312

Four panels show Jiggs—vest, spiky hair, ever-beleaguered—fielding a domestic bombshell: Maggie has announced the household is going to a coronation, complete with monocles all round. Jiggs plots privately to recruit his pal Dinty, then tracks him by telephone to a steamship company office, suspecting an escape route. The final panel delivers the strip's reliable engine: Jiggs slack-jawed at being outsmarted again. McManus's draftsmanship is immaculate—cross-hatched waistcoats, expressive silhouettes, candelabra dressing the backgrounds. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first American daily strips to sustain a cast across years, helping establish the recurring-character serial as the newspaper comic's dominant form—the direct ancestor of the comic book anthology that followed two decades later.