Bringing Up Father — buf390208

Four daily panels follow Jiggs, the parvenu Irishman in top hat, trudging home hungry after a hard day's work, only to be intercepted by his imperious, crown-wearing wife Maggie. She serves bean soup, then snatches it away mid-bite—too many proteins, not enough vitamins for his diet. The final panel finds Jiggs eyeing the canary's cage for birdseed. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913 for King Features, running it until his death in 1954. McManus refined the speech balloon as dramatic device and used elegant Art Nouveau linework to satirize nouveau-riche domestic warfare. Daily strips like this one fed directly into the first comic book anthologies of the 1930s, making the newspaper page the true laboratory of sequential-art grammar.