Bringing Up Father — buf370707

Four panels follow Jiggs hatching a scheme: invite the talkative Mrs. Lotta Chatter to visit Maggie so she'll forget her lost dog Fifi. The plan backfires magnificently — a phone call reveals Mrs. Chatter has convinced Maggie the dog was *kidnapped*, not lost, ending with Jiggs's pained 'OW—' as consequences land. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running American daily strips. His clean, art-nouveau-inflected line work — decorative wallpaper, elegantly curved furniture, expressive silhouettes — set a visual standard for domestic comedy strips. McManus's confident panel-to-panel continuity and speech-balloon pacing were foundational conventions that cartoonists and early comic-book artists absorbed wholesale throughout the 1930s.