Bringing Up Father — buf370527

Four daily panels by George McManus follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber, who finds a stray dog and frets that his sharp-tongued wife Maggie will howl at the sight of it. He braces himself to ask her permission; Maggie, already on the telephone, reports a strange man with a prize dog worth $5,000 to the police — leaving Jiggs to calculate, with a question mark floating over his head, that the reward sum matches his bail. McManus's line is fluid and confident: rounded figures, crosshatched vests, lamp-lit interiors sketched with economical precision. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first comic strips to sustain recurring characters across daily and Sunday pages, proving that serialized visual narrative — speech balloons, panel sequence, continuous cast — could anchor a mass readership, the direct template from which the comic book form would grow.