Bringing Up Father — buf370724

Four panels track a domestic crisis: Maggie scolds husband Jiggs about their new butler, then reveals she has invited the police chief to dinner — at which point the terrified butler smashes a tray of dishes and leaps out the window. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it daily and Sunday for over four decades. McManus's clean Art Nouveau line work — sinuous women, expressive crash lettering, starred impact bursts — influenced generations of cartoonists. The strip's simple recurring premise (nouveaux-riche wife versus corned-beef-loving husband) gave American newspaper comics one of their longest-running character franchises, demonstrating how daily serialization and consistent visual style could sustain a readership across continents.