Bringing Up Father — buf370703

Four daily panels follow Jiggs, George McManus's perpetually henpecked Irish-American social climber, through a quick domestic trap: a young woman asks to pet his dog Fifi; Jiggs refuses, is spotted by his wife Maggie from the window, and must talk his way out of it. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive—elegant Art Nouveau flourishes on wallpaper and clothing, expressive rubber-limbed figures, and speech balloons integrated cleanly into the action. Running from 1913 until 2000, *Bringing Up Father* was one of the longest-lived strips in syndication. McManus helped standardize the horizontal daily-strip format and the recurring cast structure that daily newspaper comics handed directly to the first comic-book anthologies of the 1930s, making strips like this literal blueprints for the medium.