Bringing Up Father — buf370617

Four panels follow Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American in his trademark top hat, as he congratulates himself on engineering a quiet evening by loading his son with office work until ten o'clock. His wife Maggie, seated in the parlor, cheerfully interprets the son's industriousness as proof of fine character — then announces that with the evening free, Jiggs will now take *her* to the opera. Stars burst around his head in the final panel. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades across King Features Syndicate. Its clean brushwork, expressive reaction shots, and domestic situation comedy helped codify the daily strip's compressed visual storytelling — the same grammar that would migrate directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.