Bringing Up Father — buf370910

George McManus, *Bringing Up Father*, daily strip, 1937. King Features Syndicate. Four black-and-white panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant-made-good, as a visitor named "Mr. Hatesemself" confronts him over ruining a dinner party for a Dr. Count-Tussin — Jiggs had cancelled the man's appointment because he was willing to lend Jiggs money. The aggrieved visitor threatens to report the whole affair to the newspapers. Final panel: a panicked Jiggs, smoke puffing from his head, dreads Maggie's wrath. McManus's line is elegant and precise — spats, cuffs, and boutonnieres rendered with art-nouveau fluency. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the earliest strips built on a recurring cast and serialized domestic comedy, its visual conventions — tiered panels, expressive speech balloons, character silhouettes — directly shaping the grammar that early comic books inherited wholesale.