Bringing Up Father — buf371013

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs, McManus's eternally hen-pecked Irish-American social climber, as he schemes to sneak out for corned beef and cabbage with the boys. Here he eyes a wobbling piano, plots an exit past a suspicious Maggie, sweet-talks his way through a parlor scene, then catches a bug on the windowsill — only to be met in the final panel with Maggie's trademark rolling pin, stars exploding around his head. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, syndicating it globally for decades. His Art Nouveau-influenced linework — sinuous wallpaper patterns, exaggerated silhouettes, kinetic impact stars — helped standardize the visual shorthand that newspaper comic strips handed directly to the first comic books of the late 1930s.