Bringing Up Father — buf370518

Four horizontal panels follow the domestic comedy of Maggie, imperious in a floral dress, demanding to know why her husband Jiggs isn't home to take her shopping — ten dollars missing from her purse sharpens her fury. A younger woman companion shares the mystery across the middle panels, while the final panel reveals Jiggs himself, gleefully hiding behind stacked luggage and gift boxes, whispering that he has escaped. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades as one of America's longest-lived strips. His sinuous Art Nouveau linework, crisp panel gutters, and speech balloons drove the visual conventions that daily newspaper strips passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.