Bringing Up Father — buf370623

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran in American newspapers from 1913 until 2000, making it one of the longest-running comic strips in history. This daily from June 23, 1937 follows the strip's perennial setup: Irish immigrant-made-wealthy Jiggs navigates domestic and business anxieties across four horizontal panels. Here the father frets privately about handing his business to his son, then summons the boy — who walks in asking for a raise. When the son instead announces *he* wants to retire, the final panel delivers the punchline: the father faints with joy, proposing they retire together in two years. McManus's clean line work, his signature Art Deco office furniture, and the strip's disciplined panel-to-panel escalation exemplify the daily newspaper comic as the direct ancestor of the comic book form.