Bringing Up Father — buf370712

Four panels track Jiggs discovering that Maggie's distress over her missing dog Fifi is connected to a diamond collar left on the hall table — a small domestic mystery resolved with deadpan economy. McManus draws Jiggs in his trademark checkered vest, Maggie in polka dots, the staging spare and the balloon lettering confident. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in syndication history. Its recurring immigrant-made-good premise — Jiggs forever sneaking out for corned beef while Maggie pursues respectability — helped standardize the daily four-panel gag format that would directly seed the first comic-book reprint collections of the 1930s.