Bringing Up Father — buf370506

Four panels trace a domestic comedy of miscommunication: a man complains about sloppy coffee, steps outside against a silhouetted London skyline, then returns to find his wife insisting everyone drinks tea in London — to which he replies he already tasted their coffee. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, following the newly rich Jiggs and his social-climbing wife Maggie through an unending class war. Running daily and Sunday for decades, the strip exemplifies the visual grammar McManus helped standardize: sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, and a recurring cast whose personalities needed no introduction. Its fluid Art Nouveau linework and architectural silhouettes influenced a generation of cartoonists working in the newspaper pages that directly seeded the first comic books of the late 1930s.