Bringing Up Father — buf370916

Four panels follow a dejected businessman who learns his company has been acquired by Mr. Jiggs's boss, certain he'll be fired. He rehearses a dignified resignation speech, then confronts the new owner — who turns out to be the genial, round-faced Jiggs himself, full of warmth and apology. The man collapses into a chair, declaring himself ruined by kindness. McManus draws in his characteristic art-deco elegance: slender ruled panel borders, crosshatched shadows, and characters whose body language carries the joke before a word is read. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its forty-year run helped establish the daily comic strip as America's first mass visual-narrative medium — the direct ancestor of the comic book page.