Bringing Up Father — buf390408

This four-panel daily strip follows the eternal domestic comedy of nouveau-riche Jiggs and his social-climbing wife Maggie. Here, a young woman complains that Sir Von Platter borrowed a car he doesn't own; meanwhile Jiggs, seated at a checkered-cloth table with a companion, gets drawn into a telephone scheme as Maggie maneuvers him into a dinner engagement — his final panel question-mark balloon says everything. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its 46-year run made it one of the most syndicated strips in history. McManus's precise pen-line, patterned fabrics, and elegant figure-work influenced generations of cartoonists; his mastery of the speech balloon as dramatic pause helped establish the visual conventions that daily newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic book editors of the 1930s.