Bringing Up Father — buf370522

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie inspecting a new apartment, until Jiggs spots his construction-worker pals Dinny and Casey on a building scaffold across the way — and immediately hatches a plan to join them, signing whatever Maggie wants to secure his escape. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its 87-year run made it one of the longest in strip history. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive: ornate Art Nouveau interiors, crosshatched textures, and expressive figures whose body language carries as much comedy as the dialogue balloons. The strip exemplifies how King Features dailies pioneered recurring characters, continuous domestic narrative, and the visual shorthand — staged panels read left to right, integrated speech balloons — that directly shaped the format of the comic book itself.