Bringing Up Father — buf390503

Four panels follow Jiggs, the stout, working-class Irish-American patriarch of George McManus's long-running strip, as he dozes loudly on a couch while his imperious wife Maggie storms in to scold him for snoring—worrying it will terrify their expected grandchild. Jiggs deflects with weary resignation, muttering that breathing in his own home has become a crime. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive: sinuous Art Nouveau linework, crosshatched upholstery, and exaggerated figure poses convey domestic comedy without a wasted mark. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 in Hearst syndication and ran for decades, its recurring characters and sequential panel grammar helping establish conventions that daily newspaper strips passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.