Bringing Up Father — buf390107

Four panels follow Jiggs, the rotund, parvenu husband created by George McManus, as he rummages through a closet convinced moths have eaten his bathrobe, resigns himself to doing without one, then receives his daughter's cheerful report that her uncle owns a bathrobe "just like yours" — which Jiggs instantly recognizes as *his* bathrobe, stolen by his wife Maggie's brother. McManus's line work is elegant and precise: thick outlines, crosshatched shading, and dramatically posed figures drawn with the confident economy of a strip running since 1913. *Bringing Up Father* was among the most widely syndicated dailies in the world, its recurring domestic squabbles and class-climbing comedy helping establish the recurring-character strip as the dominant form that directly fed the first comic book reprints of the early 1930s.