Bringing Up Father — buf390101

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant-made-good in top hat and tails, as he steels himself to tell wife Maggie they have money in the bank — then retreats when he arrives home to find her occupied with a hairdresser and society pretensions, escaping to the back door in the final panel. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. His ligne-claire figures, Art Nouveau interior flourishes, and precisely lettered speech balloons refined the visual syntax — panel-to-panel continuity, reaction beats, recurring cast — that syndicated daily strips handed wholesale to the first comic books of the 1930s.