Bringing Up Father — buf390211

Four panels follow Jiggs, the stout, tuxedo-clad Irish-American social climber created by George McManus, as he rebels against a doctor-ordered diet. He storms off to confront the physician, only to end up seated at a restaurant table piled with gravy, potatoes, ice cream, and apple pie — then flees when the bill arrives, promising to pay later. McManus's draftsmanship is immediately recognizable: sinuous Art Nouveau linework, elaborately crosshatched backgrounds, and expressive rubber-limbed figures. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 in Hearst syndication and ran for decades, helping to standardize the daily comic strip's visual grammar — recurring cast, sequential panels, integrated speech balloons — that directly shaped the anthology format soon called the comic book.