Bringing Up Father — buf370318

Four daily panels follow Jiggs and Maggie in a domestic dispute over tailoring loyalties. Maggie announces she will drop Jiggs's London tailor, Tobafor — who dresses the Earl of somewhere — for someone with a more manageable name. Jiggs defends Danny Moore, his tailor of thirty-odd years, gesturing emphatically while a seated woman delivers the punchline about Fifi's little blankets staying up to date. George McManus's line work is clean and confident: arched doorways, crosshatched waistcoats, expressive rubber-limbed figures. *Bringing Up Father*, syndicated from 1913, ran for decades and was among the most widely reprinted strips globally. McManus refined the speech-balloon grammar and recurring-character formula that daily strips passed directly into the first comic books — reprint anthologies of newspaper pages — making strips like this literal ancestors of the medium.