Bringing Up Father — buf390218

Four panels follow the strip's perennial figure, Jiggs, as he drags an easy chair into the sun, congratulates himself on fetching a good book he admits he won't read, then freezes with a question mark over his head — the chair already occupied by a sprawled visitor. The final panel shows him mid-sentence to Maggie about her brother's arrival. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its clean ink line, expressive silhouettes, and integrated speech balloons helped standardize the visual grammar that daily newspaper strips exported wholesale into the first comic books of the 1930s. McManus's draftsmanship — architectural backgrounds, patterned clothing, fluid figure work — set a benchmark that rivals openly studied.