Bringing Up Father — buf371229

Four panels follow Jiggs, McManus's Irish-American social climber in top hat and spats, as his secretary reveals he opened the boss's safe and paid off a crowd of bill collectors in cash — receipts in hand, proud of his initiative. The final beat: Jiggs realizes he now owes nothing to people he actually did owe. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. Its clean brush line, decorative Art Nouveau interiors, and comedic timing through sequential panels helped establish the visual conventions — speech balloons, reaction beats, recurring cast — that daily newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic book anthologists of the 1930s.