Bringing Up Father — buf371207

Four panels track Jiggs sneaking out of the house without wife Maggie spotting him. He congratulates himself in panel one, freezes with a thought-balloon question mark in panel two, then sprints past a lamp-post as Maggie — polka-dotted dress, rolling pin at the ready — gives chase shouting "Come here, do you hear me?" He ducks into a Turkish Bath *For Men Only*, leaving her fuming at the door with "You insect!" McManus draws in crisp ink line with bold spotted blacks; the staging across panels reads left-to-right like a chase cut from silent film. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for decades and was among the daily strips whose panel-and-balloon grammar directly fed the format that became the comic book.