Bringing Up Father — buf390120

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber in top hat and formal wear, as a neighbor asks him to relay a dinner invitation to his wife Maggie. Inside, Maggie holds court on the telephone, insisting she is a 'lady' and perfectly self-controlled — even as she shouts Jiggs down mid-sentence. The final panel shows her still chatting, oblivious, while Jiggs retreats. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, his art distinguished by Art Nouveau interior decoration and fluid brushwork. The strip pioneered the recurring domestic comedy format — fixed characters, escalating humiliation, cliffhanger dailies marked 'Continued' — directly shaping the panel grammar that early comic books inherited wholesale from newspaper syndication.