Bringing Up Father — buf370503

Three panels show Jiggs and Maggie disembarking from an ocean liner. Maggie urges haste; Jiggs reassures her that crowds on the dock will be watching. Panel two reveals what Jiggs actually sees: a dense wall of uniformed police officers. Panel three finds Jiggs frozen at the gangplank, luggage in hand, telling Maggie he doesn't think he'll leave the boat. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His clean ligne-claire draftsmanship, expressive silhouettes, and tightly choreographed three-panel timing influenced a generation of cartoonists. The strip's recurring gag structure — Jiggs caught between escape and domestic authority — exemplifies the compressed comedic grammar that newspaper dailies pioneered and that early comic books directly inherited.