Bringing Up Father — buf390711

Six panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, as his wife Mrs. Jiggs proudly introduces their curly-haired daughter to Lord Worthnotten, a monocled English aristocrat. The daughter and the lord exchange elaborate pleasantries across three panels of escalating flattery; the final panel cuts to the lord alone, muttering in relief that she is pretty enough that he won't mind missing a day of cricket. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades across Hearst syndication. Its clean contour lines, expressive caricature, and tightly sequenced speech balloons helped standardize the visual grammar that early comic-book publishers would soon repackage wholesale — proof that the newspaper daily strip was the true cradle of the American comic book.