Bringing Up Father — buf390217

Four panels follow Jiggs, the parvenu Irish-American patriarch, sneaking downstairs at night to raid the icebox. He mutters about his diet, creeps through a darkened kitchen rendered in silhouette, then freezes as his wife Maggie catches him at the open refrigerator door. The final panel shows Maggie, in nightcap and robe, announcing she will 'take the rest of the turkey' and help him — punishment dressed as assistance. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913; its clean ligne, ornate Art Nouveau interiors, and precisely timed panel-to-panel beats made it one of the most widely syndicated strips in the world, a direct model for the page layouts and recurring-character storytelling that early comic-book publishers raided wholesale when they began reprinting newspaper dailies in the 1930s.