Bringing Up Father — buf390605

Four daily panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber created by George McManus, as he accidentally smashes Maggie's antique vase and attempts to hide the evidence by enlisting the household baby to help reassemble the pieces. McManus's line work is characteristically elegant — thick-and-thin brushwork, crosshatched shadows, expressive rubber-limbed figures — while the gag turns on escalating panic punctuated by the baby's cheerful "Boo-boo-da." *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, its speech balloons and sequential panel logic directly feeding the visual grammar that early comic book editors simply reprinted and bound. McManus's domestic comedy strip was among the first to give recurring characters genuine personality arcs across years of daily strips.