Bringing Up Father — buf370331

Three panels follow Maggie and her daughter worrying that Jiggs has gone missing in a London travel office, buried under an avalanche of tour catalogues and maps — the final panel a bravura explosion of paper that swamps the hapless Mr. Tour alongside him. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in American newspaper history. His signature style — sinuous Art Nouveau linework, boldly patterned clothing (here Maggie's polka-dot dress), and theatrical staging — influenced a generation of cartoonists. The daily newspaper strip format McManus helped standardize, with its compressed three- or four-panel gag structure and speech balloons, directly seeded the comic book pamphlets that emerged in the early 1930s when syndicates began reprinting such pages in collected form.