Bringing Up Father — buf390614

Four panels follow Jiggs, the top-hatted Irish-American social climber created by George McManus, who has apparently taken the family baby out in a carriage—proudly telling Maggie he kept the infant in the sun for forty hours. Maggie's withering reply: the baby has been asleep inside for the last four hours. McManus's art is immediately recognizable—swirling Art Nouveau decorative lines, immaculate brushwork, and characters drawn with rubbery expressiveness. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, syndicated globally. McManus was among the newspaper strip artists whose innovations—regular cast, sequential panels, speech balloons, sustained comedic continuity—directly shaped the visual language that early comic books wholesale adopted when they began reprinting daily strips in the 1930s.