Bringing Up Father — buf390306

Three panels follow Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish immigrant, arriving home to find Maggie's brother asleep on the sofa — exactly where he was that morning. Jiggs blusters about throwing him out, detours to fetch Maggie, then finds himself yawning helplessly in the final panel: "That guy's sleepin' is gettin' to be contagious — I'm gittin' to feel dopey meself." George McManus's draftsmanship is elegant: rounded Art Deco interiors, sinuous furniture lines, figures rendered in confident brushwork with precise hatching. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran in syndication for decades and helped cement the daily comic strip's core grammar — recurring cast, compressed three-panel timing, speech balloons carrying dialect humor — the direct structural ancestor of the comic book page.