Bringing Up Father — buf371004

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie's ongoing class-warfare comedy: Maggie fumes that their fired butler had the nerve to address her; Jiggs privately admits the man has more nerve than he does. Outside, Jiggs encounters the ex-butler at the front door — the man is angling to be rehired. The gag pivots on Jiggs's sheepish confession that he has "been fired once" himself, leaving a bystander baffled with a question mark. George McManus's line work is crisp and confident — decorative ironwork, lamppost, period dress — the characters' rubber-limbed expressiveness rooted in his vaudeville-era cartooning training. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, its recurring cast and domestic situation comedy directly shaping the serialized character strips that early comic-book publishers would repackage into the first true comic books of the 1930s.