Bringing Up Father — buf390411

Four panels follow Mr. Jiggs — squat, top-hatted, ever-hen-pecked — as a taller, well-dressed man buttonholes him about "a matter of great importance." Jiggs deflects by suggesting they meet at the man's office, the Leftuwrite Building, twenty-fifth floor. The final panel reveals the "office" is a construction girder high above the city skyline, Jiggs perched absurdly aloft: "This is an odd place to have an office — but some people have odd ideas." George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its clean brushwork, architectural backgrounds, and snappy balloon-driven timing made it one of the most widely syndicated strips in the world — a direct formal ancestor of the comic book page.