Bringing Up Father — buf370408

Four panels show Jiggs and Maggie preparing for a yacht trip to witness the Coronation — a topical hook placing this strip in 1937, year of George VI's crowning. Host Mr. Everett Tripe advises Maggie to watch shipboard customs; she immediately orders the hapless Jiggs to mimic Tripe's every move, while Jiggs gamely agrees in his staccato 'All-right-all-right' manner. The final panel explodes in the strip's signature domestic slapstick: Maggie threatening to throw him overboard. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades and syndicating it globally. His fluid Art Nouveau linework, expressive silhouettes, and tightly timed panel sequences helped standardize the visual grammar — recurring characters, speech balloons as dialogue containers, escalating gag structure — that daily newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic books of the late 1930s.