Bringing Up Father — buf370913

Four panels follow Jiggs's social-climbing antagonist through a comic reversal: he storms into a merchant's office to cancel a contract and destroy him, tears the document to pieces for dramatic effect, then watches the merchant cheerfully phone a competitor to fill the suddenly open order. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* for King Features Syndicate from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running continuity gags in American newspaper history. McManus's clean Art Deco linework—crosshatched suits, expressive silhouettes, confident panel gutters—helped standardize the visual vocabulary that early comic book publishers would directly reprint and then imitate when the pamphlet format emerged in the mid-1930s.