Bringing Up Father — buf390316

Three panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber created by George McManus, as a companion character tries—and fails—to rouse him from a deep, snoring sleep on a sofa. The gag escalates neatly: first the vow to move cities to escape him, then a futile attempt to shift him, finally the deadpan solution of shipping him freight to South America. McManus's draftsmanship is characteristically ornate—crosshatched interiors, decorative wallpaper, rounded figures in bold black ink. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, syndicated globally. It belongs to the generation of newspaper dailies—alongside *Little Nemo* and *Krazy Kat*—whose recurring characters, sequential panels, and speech balloons established the visual conventions that comic books would inherit wholesale when anthology reprint titles appeared in the early 1930s.