Bringing Up Father — buf370525

Four panels follow Jiggs, the stocky, cigar-chomping social climber of George McManus's long-running daily, through a simple domestic loop: complaining at the dinner table that he's tired of pork chops, muttering that he's had so many he's 'starting to grunt,' announcing he'll tell Maggie, then calling the butcher — to order more pork chops. McManus's line is fluid and elegant, his figures rounded and confident, his speech balloons cleanly lettered. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the strips that taught readers worldwide how to follow sequential panels and dialogue balloons — visual conventions now so ingrained we forget they had to be invented.