Bringing Up Father — buf371118

Six horizontal panels follow Jiggs—the parvenu Irishman in top hat and checked suit—trading barbs with an old neighborhood acquaintance. The gag turns on mutual stubbornness: both men concede they argued about politics for twenty years without either winning a point, and the strip closes on the friend calling Jiggs "th' same old stupid boob." George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running character-driven dailies in syndication history. McManus's clean ink line, precise hatching, and restrained panel borders exemplify the drafting standards that newspaper strips established before comic books adopted the same visual grammar wholesale—speech balloons, sequential closure, recurring cast—from their tabloid predecessors.