Bringing Up Father — buf370326

Four panels: Jiggs endures his wife Maggie's gramophone singing at home, then escapes outdoors declaring they'll sail to the Coronation just to get away from her piano and her voice. A ship's officer presents Jiggs with a stateroom diagram — only for Jiggs to spot a piano in the cabin, triggering his horrified "O-U-" exit cry. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades as one of King Features' anchor dailies. McManus's clean, art-nouveau-inflected line work — decorative wallpaper, elegant lamp curves, expressive silhouettes — set a visual standard for the daily strip. Strips like this one, syndicated nationally and later collected into reprint pamphlets, directly seeded the format that became the comic book.