Bringing Up Father — buf370622

Four daily panels by George McManus show Jiggs working himself into a fury to scold his son, only to have his wife Maggie hurl him bodily out the door before he gets a word in. The gag turns on reversal: righteous paternal authority deflated by domestic power in a single airborne panel. McManus's line is fluid and confident — checkered vests, pomaded hair, exaggerated motion blur — rooted in the strip's 1913 debut, when newspaper comics were forging the grammar every subsequent cartoonist inherited: sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring cast. *Bringing Up Father* ran continuously for nearly nine decades, making it one of the longest-lived character strips in American newspaper history.