Bringing Up Father — buf370611

Four panels follow the domestic comedy of Jiggs and Maggie, George McManus's long-running strip launched in 1913. Here, Maggie schemes to invite the dull Mr. Ollie Olanehoo for company on a rainy night; when visitors actually arrive at the door asking for Jiggs, she dispatches her son with the deflating message that "there are three idiots here to see him." McManus's draftsmanship is immediately recognizable — voluptuous Art Nouveau linework, heavily patterned clothing, and expressive rubber-limbed figures. *Bringing Up Father* ran in syndication for nearly a century, and its recurring cast of working-class-turned-wealthy Irish-Americans made it one of the first strips to prove that daily newspaper comics could sustain novelistic continuity, directly shaping the anthology reprint format that became the modern comic book.