Bringing Up Father — buf390216

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber in top hat, visiting Doctor Ummup. He announces he hasn't eaten in a week; the doctor cuts him off mid-complaint to diagnose him choking on food he's wolfing too fast without chewing. The gag closes with someone calling an ambulance — for the doctor. McManus draws in his characteristic art-nouveau-inflected line: thick ink outlines, expressive figures, cluttered domestic interiors. *Bringing Up Father*, launched by George McManus in 1913 for King Features, ran nearly nine decades and was among the first strips reprinted in early comic book compilations of the 1930s — direct ancestors of the comic-book format. Its recurring characters and panel-to-panel continuity helped codify the visual grammar American comics still use.