Bringing Up Father — buf390517

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs and Maggie as they wrestle with naming their son's new baby. Jiggs confesses he can't settle on a name; Maggie calls it a genuine task. The couple reports having searched the dictionary, road maps, and the telephone book before giving up — then turns the problem directly to newspaper readers, inviting them to submit suggestions, with McManus promising an original autographed drawing to the winner. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its clean brushwork, decorative Art Nouveau backgrounds, and firmly boundaried panels typified the daily strip format that syndicates exported worldwide. Those syndicated pages — cut, folded, and stapled — became the direct physical model for the first comic books, making strips like this one structural ancestors of the medium.