Bringing Up Father — buf390613

Four panels follow Jiggs, the round, hen-pecked Irish-American husband created by George McManus, as he plays with a baby, cooing "poochie woochie" — only to have Maggie seize the child, insisting he'll drop it. Jiggs wanders off wondering where she put "the little rascal," then finds the baby penned in a crib. His closing line — "you might as well git used to it while you're young — I've been in one all me married life" — delivers the strip's signature joke. McManus's clean Art Deco linework, ornate backgrounds, and expressive balloon lettering exemplify the daily newspaper comic that directly fed the first comic books, which were initially just reprinted strips. *Bringing Up Father* ran from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest-running continuity gag strips in American newspaper history.