Bringing Up Father — buf390728

Four panels follow Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American paterfamilias created by George McManus, as he orders a cascade of absurdly specific British foods from a waiter, then confesses to a friend that since his daughter married Lord Worthnotten he must eat with his coat on. His wife Maggie sweeps in to invite him to dinner, promising his favorite dish — corned beef and cabbage — while a top-hatted English lord loiters at the panel's edge. McManus's draftsmanship is immaculate: thick ink outlines, cross-hatched plaid suits, elaborately curled hair on Maggie. Launched in 1913 by King Features, *Bringing Up Father* was among the strips that proved recurring characters and sequential panels could sustain daily readership for decades — the direct template from which comic books would be assembled and sold as standalone objects by the late 1930s.