Bringing Up Father — buf390410

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber, being dispatched by his imperious wife Maggie to visit the ailing Sir Von Platter. Jiggs frets he'll babble nonsense when feverish, then arrives to find Von Platter hosting him anyway—and promptly out-talks the sick man with cheerful incoherence. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* for King Features from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running daily strips in American newspaper history. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework, decorative interiors, and expressive figure-acting set a visual standard that shaped how cartoonists used speech balloons, panel-to-panel timing, and recurring cast dynamics—formal devices that newspaper syndicates exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.