Bringing Up Father — buf370315

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie as she announces the family will attend a royal coronation. Maggie declares they must practice proper behavior before the king; Jiggs, characteristically indifferent, reads a book on court etiquette while doubting the exercise. The final panel delivers the punchline: Jiggs, balanced atop a precarious stack of furniture under an umbrella, announces he already knows how to hold steady in crowds from watching parades. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over three decades. His sinuous Art Nouveau linework—fluid women, expressive staging, elegant architectural backgrounds—distinguished the strip visually while the social-climbing premise (Irish immigrant Jiggs resisting Maggie's aspirations) kept readers loyal across generations. McManus's mastery of sequential panel rhythm and integrated speech balloons helped codify the daily newspaper strip as a narrative art form.