Bringing Up Father — buf370511

Three daily panels follow Jiggs and his socially ambitious wife and daughter, newly arrived in London and fretting that they have yet to meet any nobility. The women peer anxiously through a window at a crowd gathered around their car; Jiggs shuffles in, battered hat askew, to explain cheerfully that he 'ran into a Duke today.' McManus's rounded, Art Deco linework — elegantly dressed women rendered in sinuous black silhouette, Jiggs perpetually rumpled beside them — defines the strip's visual engine: class tension played as pure physical comedy. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first daily strips to develop fully recurring characters across years of continuity, helping establish the narrative conventions that newspaper comics passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.