Bringing Up Father — buf370601

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran as a King Features daily from 1913 into the 1950s, making it one of the longest-lived strips in American newspaper history. This June 1937 daily follows Jiggs and his wife as they rush to the depot to meet their son Sonny, who arrives not by car but by train — loaded, they assume, with books. Instead he tumbles off with a menagerie: dogs, a giraffe, a hippo, a lion, and alligators crammed into the baggage car. McManus's rounded, art-deco linework and confident panel-to-panel gag escalation show exactly the visual grammar — speech balloons, sequential beats, recurring cast — that newspaper comic pages exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.