Bringing Up Father — buf390301

Four daily panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber, through a domestic farce: a business associate warns him about a lurking brother-in-law; Jiggs's daughter Nora phones to say the man is headed home; a silhouetted Jiggs plants a well-aimed kick; and wife Maggie, in feathered finery, reports him gone while praising the fellow's work ethic. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. The strip's clean ink line, decorative Art Nouveau interiors, and rhythmic panel-to-panel continuity were formative: newspaper dailies like this one directly supplied the page-count, dimensions, and visual grammar—speech balloons, sequential action, recurring cast—that early comic book publishers reprinted wholesale to create the medium.