Bringing Up Father — buf390520

Four panels: a woman reclined on a chaise asks her son whether he photographed the baby with her camera; he confirms he enlarged the prints and stored them in his closet. A large male figure — almost certainly Jiggs, the strip's Irish-immigrant social climber — accompanies the son to retrieve them, opens the door, and is buried in an avalanche of framed pictures. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. McManus's fluid Art Nouveau linework, his precise rendering of domestic interiors, and his mastery of the sight-gag climax panel influenced a generation of cartoonists. The strip's syndication across hundreds of papers made it a cornerstone of the daily comics page — the direct commercial and formal ancestor of the comic book.