Bringing Up Father — buf371028

Four panels track Jiggs's doomed bid for a night out: he announces his plan to Maggie, insists he won't argue, watches crockery fly, and exits airborne — asking, mid-flight, whether she'd mind tossing his hat and coat. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running continuity gags in newspaper history. McManus's line work is unmistakable — sinuous Art Nouveau curves on furniture and dresses, characters rendered in crisp ink with minimal crosshatching. Strips like this one were the direct seedbed of the comic book: page layouts, speech balloons, recurring cast, and sequential panel grammar all migrated from the syndicated daily page into the first anthology comic books of the mid-1930s.