Bringing Up Father — buf371011

Four panels follow Jiggs, the blarney-stoned Irish-American social climber, as his wife Maggie invites Professor Al LeGrow to dinner to hear him play piano. Jiggs, characteristically, cares only that he can eat. The professor arrives through a stuck window, plays a minuet 'for your benefit,' and the final panel shows sheet music raining down amid the wreckage of a broken vase — retribution implied. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it continuously for decades and syndicating it worldwide. McManus's crisp Art Nouveau linework, elegant backgrounds, and expressive balloon placement helped standardize daily comic-strip grammar that later comic-book artists inherited wholesale.