Bringing Up Father — buf370908

Four panels follow Maggie, dressed elaborately for a dinner party, fretting that Mr. Hatesemself has snubbed them by inviting Count Tussin without including Jiggs. A tall, tuxedoed figure appears at the door — she assumes it must be the Count and launches into fawning pleasantries; the final panel's cutoff ('It's really the Count—') implies Jiggs himself has just walked in. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His draftsmanship — sinuous Art Nouveau furniture, precise crosshatching, expressive silhouettes — elevated the domestic-squabble strip into a visual style instantly recognizable on six continents. Strips like this one, syndicated as daily and Sunday pages, supplied the raw material that early comic-book publishers literally reprinted, making newspaper comics the direct ancestor of the American comic book.