Bringing Up Father — buf370402

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, as his friend Dugan urges him to tell his imperious wife Maggie he's going out with the gang tonight. Jiggs briefly agrees — "I'm entitled to a little bit of consideration" — then arrives home, where Maggie's withering stare instantly deflates him: he won't be seeing the coronation after all. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His clean Art Nouveau line, expressive figure work, and tightly timed four-panel rhythm helped establish the daily domestic comedy strip as a mass medium — the very format that, collected into pamphlets in the 1930s, gave rise to the comic book itself.