Bringing Up Father — buf390126

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a domestic comedy of crossed signals: Maggie talks Jiggs to sleep on the phone, he dozes in an armchair snoring a fat Z, and an exasperated guest arrives to report waiting three hours at a restaurant for a dinner invitation the couple apparently forgot. George McManus's line work is characteristic — theatrical figure poses, patterned wallpaper, the elaborate coiffures and spotted dress that mark Maggie as social climber. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, its recurring cast and sequential panel logic helping standardize the visual conventions — speech balloons, panel gutters, recurring characters — that newspaper syndicates exported directly into the first comic book reprints of the 1930s.