Bringing Up Father — buf390619

Three panels follow a crowd of men waiting outside an office, each insisting his appointment with "Mr. Jiggs" is urgent. The joke lands in the final panel: Jiggs is revealed at a bar counter, a boy serving as gatekeeper, gleefully waving the men in. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it daily and Sundays until his death in 1954. McManus's rounded, elegantly dressed figures and fluid balloon placement were benchmarks of newspaper strip draftsmanship. Syndicated strips like this one are the direct ancestors of the comic book — their page formats, recurring characters, and sequential grammar were reprinted in early anthology comics, creating the medium wholesale.