Bringing Up Father — buf371206

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber, as his wife Maggie corners him at home while he schemes to sneak out to his friend Jerry's. McManus draws the domestic comedy in his signature art-nouveau-inflected line: hatched backgrounds, expressive silhouettes, speech balloons that overflow with conspiratorial asides. The gag turns on a telephone call — Maggie plans a cultured musical evening; Jiggs, caught mid-panel with a question mark floating above him, immediately phones Jerry to bolt in thirty minutes. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first daily strips to sustain recurring characters across years, helping establish the serialized comic strip as a narrative form that directly seeded the anthology comic books of the late 1930s.