Bringing Up Father — buf370520

Four panels follow Maggie as she complains about their apartment and wishes to break the lease, then decides to sing away her irritation — belting *"It Must Be Love, My Turtle-Dove"* in an extended third panel packed with floating musical notes — until the final panel reveals the janitor has threatened to cancel their lease over the noise, neatly reversing her complaint. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running American strips; his clean Art Nouveau line, expressive figure work, and domestic comedy influenced a generation of cartoonists. The daily newspaper strip — syndicated to hundreds of papers — was the direct seedbed of the comic book: its panel grids, speech balloons, and recurring cast are the grammar every subsequent comics artist inherited.