Bringing Up Father — buf370726

Four panels follow Jiggs sneaking out before his butler spots him — he loses his appetite just looking at the man. Caught at a lunch counter, Jiggs mutters that the cook can't work anyway; the cook overhears and guesses the butler sent him to check. The final panel lands the punchline: a waiter has tracked Jiggs to his office with his breakfast tray, calling it a service. George McManus's linework is fluid and assured — checkered suits, expressive gestures, architectural hatching — the visual shorthand of a strip he drew from 1913 until his death in 1954. *Bringing Up Father* was among the first American strips syndicated internationally, and its domestic-comedy formula — newly rich husband sneaking back to working-class pleasures — shaped the recurring-character daily strip that directly fed the first comic book anthologies of the 1930s.