Bringing Up Father — buf390606

Four panels follow Jiggs, the round-faced, vest-wearing father, as he congratulates himself on finally getting the baby to sleep, then tiptoes through the hallway so carefully that he trips over a toy and tumbles head-over-heels, landing in a shower of stars while his imperious, crown-wearing wife Maggie looks on in alarm. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* for King Features Syndicate from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running strips in newspaper history. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework — ornate wallpaper, elegant door frames — set against broad physical comedy defined a visual template that daily newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic books of the late 1930s, reprinting exactly these pages between cardboard covers.