Bringing Up Father — buf370424

Four panels aboard an ocean liner: Jiggs steers Mrs. Jiggs toward steerage via a hatchway while she asks about the propellers; a tour guide explains the ship's three funnels—one an air shaft, two with side doors for sailors—prompting her to wonder aloud whether the builder miscounted; in the final panel Jiggs, perched on the funnel rim with two card-playing pals, urges them not to delay the game. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913 for King Features Syndicate, running it nearly four decades. His clean Art Nouveau linework, plump speech balloons, and fixed recurring cast helped standardize the visual conventions that newspaper comic strips exported directly into the first comic books of the 1930s.