Bringing Up Father — buf390513

Three panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber of George McManus's long-running daily strip, in what appears to be a train-station reunion scene. A woman urges him to greet his arriving wife warmly; he approaches an elegantly dressed young woman with a child, only to discover she is the nurse, not his wife — prompting his cheerful "Oh yea!" McManus's line work is characteristically fluid and decorative, with elaborate hat plumage and rounded figures typical of his Art Nouveau–influenced draftsmanship. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was syndicated globally for decades, its recurring cast and sequential panel structure helping to codify the visual conventions — speech balloons, consistent character design, timed comic rhythm — that newspaper comic strips passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.