Bringing Up Father — buf370329

Four panels track a domestic skirmish between Jiggs and Maggie, McManus's long-running social-climbing couple. Jiggs announces he has bought himself a new grip for travel; Maggie counters that she took every bag and trunk for her own use and the grip is perfect for her makeup and perfumes. Shamed as selfish, Jiggs surrenders the bag — then quietly instructs the butler James to find cigar boxes for his packing. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive: art-nouveau curves, crosshatched waistcoats, crown-wearing Maggie rendered in fluid ink line. *Bringing Up Father*, launched in 1913, was among the first strips to anchor recurring characters in serialized domestic comedy, and its syndication across hundreds of papers helped establish the daily comic strip as a mass narrative form — the direct ancestor of the collected comic book.