Bringing Up Father — buf390527

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs and Maggie debating a name for their new baby. Readers have written in suggesting *Ambrose*; Maggie likes it, Jiggs is noncommittal. A pompous neighbor then arrives, proudly introducing his own sleeping son — also named Ambrose. The final panel delivers the payoff: Maggie flatly vetoes the name. George McManus's linework is characteristically ornate — striped suits, chandelier interiors, expressive rubbery faces — all rendered in the confident brushwork he developed over three decades. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first newspaper strips to build a recurring domestic cast with genuine continuity, helping establish the daily comic strip as the direct ancestor of the comic book format itself.