Bringing Up Father — buf370421

Four panels aboard a ship: Jiggs, McManus's Irish immigrant made good, begs off a deck walk with Maggie by claiming a meeting with the Captain — then slips into the Captain's Room for a card game. He's had a sign hung on the door reading *Captain's Room* so Maggie believes his alibi. The final panel finds him dealing cards with pals. McManus's draftsmanship is elegant — bold ink lines, porthole circles as compositional anchors, figures with rubbery expressiveness. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, syndicated worldwide. George McManus, alongside Outcault and Dirks, helped codify the daily strip's visual grammar: sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, and a recurring cast whose domestic friction became the template for sitcom comedy.