Bringing Up Father — buf370619

Four panels track Jiggs's doomed attempt at domestic leisure. Relieved that his son is covering the office, he slips home, stretches out on a chaise longue, and savors the quiet — until his wife Maggie appears, mop and bucket in hand, conscripting him for housecleaning. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His line work is unusually elegant for comic strips: Art Nouveau lamp shades, crosshatched waistcoats, and figures with a rubbery theatrical weight. The strip helped standardize the daily four-panel gag format and the speech balloon conventions that would migrate, nearly wholesale, into the first comic books of the late 1930s.