Bringing Up Father — buf390522

Four daily panels follow Jiggs tiptoeing past a sleeping child, removing his shoes to muffle his escape, only to tumble noisily down the staircase and land at the feet of a furious Maggie, who banishes him back upstairs. McManus's line is fluid and assured: rounded figures, expressive mouths, a single bold POW effect on impact. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, syndicated worldwide. McManus refined the visual grammar newspaper strips had been building since Outcault's *Yellow Kid* (1895) — sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, a recurring cast whose domestic tensions reset daily, strip after strip teaching readers to parse comics as a distinct literary form.