Bringing Up Father — buf370901

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* (King Features Syndicate, launched 1913) follows Jiggs, a newly wealthy Irish-American laborer who can't shake his working-class habits, and his socially ambitious wife Maggie. In this four-panel daily, Jiggs schemes to borrow a movie camera from his daughter, is relieved to rest while others use it—then Maggie commandeers it to photograph interiors, chasing him out. The final panel's oversized close-up hand and chimney stack is pure McManus: bold Art Nouveau line work, patterned fabrics, and expressive silhouette. McManus refined the recurring-character daily strip's visual shorthand—consistent settings, reaction-beat panels, speech balloons as pacing tool—that newspaper syndicates exported worldwide, directly seeding the anthology format that became the comic book.