Bringing Up Father — buf370825

Four panels track Jiggs's misadventure with a movie camera: he climbs a table to get a better angle, Maggie storms in demanding to know what he's doing, and the final panel finds him sprawled on the floor amid impact stars, ruefully concluding he'd need a cage to film safely around here. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running character strips in American newspaper history. His art — bold outlines, decorative wallpaper patterns, expressive silhouettes — influenced generations of cartoonists. Strips like this one, syndicated as daily and Sunday pages, supplied the raw material that early comic-book publishers literally cut and reprinted, making the newspaper page the true cradle of the American comic book.