Bringing Up Father — buf370603

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran daily and Sunday from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest-lived strips in newspaper history. This four-panel daily shows Jiggs's son arriving at the father's office: a receptionist jokes he must be lying down since he's always asleep; the son then presents himself as ready to start a business career — while immediately asking for a vacation, a raise, and a salary increase. McManus's art is economical and elegant: bold ink outlines, spotted blacks, minimal backgrounds, and expressive rubber-limbed figures. The final panel's 'OW—' signals a classic comic punch delivered off-panel. McManus, trained in the Hearst bullpen, helped standardize the horizontal daily strip format and the speech balloon conventions that newspaper comics exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.