Bringing Up Father — buf390628

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber of George McManus's long-running daily strip, as he presents a large hound puppy to a baby. The dog and infant regard each other on all fours with mutual bafflement — the baby babbling, the dog silent — while Jiggs flees the scene wondering what either creature is thinking. McManus's line is clean and rounded, his figures broad and expressive, his comedic timing built entirely through posture and balloon placement. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, exemplifying how newspaper comic strips invented the vocabulary — sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring cast — that American comic books would directly inherit and industrialize after 1933.