Bringing Up Father — buf371009

Four panels follow the domestic comedy of Jiggs and his household. A daughter tips off her father that the butler came home at three in the morning; father sees his chance to bawl out the servant and demand an explanation — only for the butler to coolly reveal he saw the father himself dancing just as late. The strip closes on silent defeat. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it continuously for decades in syndication worldwide. McManus's crisp Art Nouveau line work, his precisely lettered speech balloons, and his locked-in recurring cast helped standardize the daily newspaper strip format that directly seeded the first comic book reprints of the 1930s.