Bringing Up Father — buf371227

Four panels by George McManus follow the perennial Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, as a young job-seeker admits he hates work. Asked whether anyone in his family does any work, he mentions his uncle — an inventor currently building a machine. The punchline lands in the final panel: a machine to do away with work altogether, leaving Jiggs slack-jawed with a question mark floating above him. McManus's draftsmanship is confident and economical — crosshatched suits, expressive rubber-limbed figures, speech balloons integrated cleanly into ruled panels. *Bringing Up Father*, launched in 1913, ran for decades and was among the daily newspaper strips whose panel-by-panel sequential grammar directly shaped the emerging comic book format of the late 1930s.