Bringing Up Father — buf371223

Four panels by George McManus show Jiggs's wife Maggie dispatching him to fire a secretary at Mr. Cal Lecoe's office — only for Jiggs to arrive and find the secretary has already been hired to fire *him*. The twist lands in the final panel: Jiggs, humbled, says he'll wait, since Mr. Lecoe has gone to the doctor's. McManus's brushwork is characteristically fluent — thick outlines, crosshatched suits, expressive silhouettes. *Bringing Up Father*, syndicated from 1913, was among the first strips to build recurring domestic comedy across decades of daily continuity, helping establish the visual grammar — sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, consistent character design — that newspaper comics handed directly to the comic book format when anthology reprint collections emerged in the 1930s.