Bringing Up Father — buf370416

Four panels aboard a rolling ocean liner: Maggie warns Jiggs to behave at the captain's table; a lurching steward battles the ship's pitch to open a cabin door; then, in the crowded dining saloon, Jiggs ignores maritime etiquette entirely and bellows for a double order of corned beef and cabbage — promptly echoed by every other diner at the table. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His fluid Art Nouveau linework, expressive rubber-limbed figures, and impeccably timed panel rhythm helped codify the daily comic strip as a narrative form — the direct ancestor of the comic book page that would crystallize in the late 1930s.