Bringing Up Father — buf370409

Five panels follow Jiggs, the newly-rich Irish-American social climber, as his wife Maggie harangues him about associating with proper English gentlemen — just as a call arrives from the aristocratic "Lord Strand-Detton De Thames," who wants Jiggs for lunch and to meet someone called "Uponcakes." George McManus's brushwork is immediately recognizable: thick-outlined figures, Maggie's perpetual scowl and polka-dot dress, Jiggs's hapless grin. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips to develop a locked cast of recurring characters across daily installments, its panel-by-panel joke construction and integrated speech balloons directly shaping the visual grammar that early comic-book publishers would repackage and sell as a new medium throughout the 1930s and 1940s.