Bringing Up Father — buf370715

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a domestic crisis: Fifi the dog has returned home and refuses her chicken dinner, leaps from the kitchen window, and prompts Maggie to threaten suicide while Jiggs mutters murder. McManus draws in his signature rounded, fluid line — ringleted hair, pear-shaped figures, candelabra-laden interiors signaling nouveau-riche aspiration. Speech balloons cascade across panels with natural rhythm, the visual grammar George McManus helped standardize after the strip launched in 1913. *Bringing Up Father* ran continuously for decades, syndicated globally, proving that recurring characters with fixed social dynamics could sustain indefinite daily serialization — the direct commercial model that made the comic book anthology format economically imaginable.