Bringing Up Father — buf390102

Four panels follow Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish immigrant, steeling himself to tell wife Maggie they have money in the bank — only to arrive home and find her receiving a hairdresser amid fashionable chaos, dismissing him to serve tea at four. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. His sinuous Art Nouveau linework — ribbon-like curtains, wallpaper patterns, elegantly elongated women — distinguished the strip visually from every contemporary. McManus refined the speech balloon and the multi-panel gag rhythm that daily newspaper comics exported directly into the first comic books of the 1930s, making strips like this one literal blueprints for the medium's visual grammar.