Bringing Up Father — buf390204

Four horizontal panels follow the domestic sparring of Maggie and Jiggs, McManus's long-running Irish-American couple. In the opening panel Maggie holds court on a chaise, lecturing Jiggs about clubs and obedience; subsequent panels show Jiggs smoking a pipe and reporting to a third figure that he gave Daughter 'a good lecture'; the final panel reveals Maggie already at her club, reading, having routed everyone. McManus's line is confident and decorative — curling hair, patterned upholstery, expressive silhouettes. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was syndicated globally and helped standardize the daily strip format: fixed recurring cast, sequential panels, speech balloons carrying the full comedic load — the direct structural ancestors of the comic book page.