Bringing Up Father — buf371007

Four panels track Jiggs grumbling that his new butler is "the dumbest man I've ever seen" — only to be silenced, panel by panel, as the butler bluntly dismisses him mid-sentence, cuts him off at a reception desk, and finally strides away unruffled while Jiggs mutters admiringly, "By golly — I think I kin learn somethin' from him." George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His clean, Art Nouveau-inflected line, meticulous interior décor, and precisely timed balloon placement became a template for daily strip construction worldwide. King Features' global syndication made Jiggs and Maggie among the most recognized comic characters of the early twentieth century, proof that the newspaper daily strip — not the anthology pamphlet — is where modern comics grammar was forged.