Bringing Up Father — buf390714

Four horizontal panels show Maggie excitedly awaiting Lord Worthnotten and his son, only to receive a phone call revealing her daughter has slipped out on an 'important date' while the son simultaneously sneaked away. McManus draws in his characteristic Art Nouveau-inflected line: angular figures, elaborate wallpaper, and speech balloons packed with breathless em-dashes. *Bringing Up Father*, launched by George McManus in 1913, ran continuously for decades and was syndicated worldwide. Its domestic comedy of social-climbing wives and hapless husbands helped establish the daily comic strip as a narrative form — panels, recurring cast, cliff-hanger continuity — whose collected reprints directly seeded the comic-book format. McManus's draftsmanship set a benchmark for the newspaper page as sequential art.