Bringing Up Father — buf370716

Four panels follow Jiggs and his household through a comic telephone mix-up: a woman frets that Fifi the dog has vanished, Jiggs admits he is enjoying the animal's absence, a caller phones asking for "Fifi," and a final panel reveals the dog has wandered into a restaurant whose exasperated manager begs someone to collect her. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it continuously for decades through King Features. His clean, elegantly curved linework and impeccably dressed interiors reflected his background in vaudeville visual comedy. The strip belongs to the generation of daily newspaper continuities — alongside *Mutt and Jeff* and *Krazy Kat* — whose panel sequences, speech balloons, and recurring cast directly established the formal conventions that early comic-book publishers would soon repackage wholesale.