Bringing Up Father — buf371123

Four panels: Maggie warns Jiggs she'll be out long and forbids him to leave; Jiggs, relieved, assures her he has no intention of going out; alone, he settles into his armchair with a cake and anticipates peace and quiet — only to find Maggie's portrait on the wall glaring down at him with a giant question mark; in the final panel he shrugs it off and opens a newspaper. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His clean Art Nouveau linework, expressive silhouettes, and rhythmic panel-to-panel timing helped codify the domestic-comedy daily strip — a format whose recurring characters, speech balloons, and sequential gag structure fed directly into the first comic book reprints of the 1930s.