Bringing Up Father — buf370510

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Irish-immigrant-made-good Jiggs and his socially ambitious wife Maggie through the rituals of nouveau-riche life. In this four-panel daily, Jiggs attends a swanky affair, then hands his top hat to a butler — who returns it badly crushed, lamely blaming Sir Wellendry for sitting on it. The final beat: Jiggs simply tells him to put it back on his head. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive — art-nouveau flourishes, bold silhouettes, and immaculate cross-hatching. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades, its recurring domestic comedy helping establish the newspaper daily as a narrative form whose panel-by-panel sequencing and speech balloons directly seeded the comic book as a medium.