Bringing Up Father — buf390603

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and by 1939 it ran in hundreds of papers worldwide, making Jiggs and Maggie among the most recognized faces in print. This daily strip opens with women cooing baby-talk over an infant — "ittle ookie snookie precious pumpkins" — while Jiggs, eavesdropping from the doorway in his trademark tuxedo and spiky hair, confesses he feels like a foreigner hearing the language. The final panel breaks the fourth wall: McManus offers readers an original drawing for submitting the best name for the baby. McManus's fluid Art Deco linework, expressive figures, and confident balloon placement exemplify the visual grammar newspaper strips invented — the direct ancestor of the comic book page.