Bringing Up Father — buf390808

Four panels follow an older woman who has borrowed a monocle, becomes convinced it suits her perfectly, wears it all day, then discovers at bedtime that her eye will no longer close — requiring a doctor. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features Syndicate in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. McManus's signature style is immediately legible here: bold Art Nouveau–inflected figure outlines, spotted-fabric patterns rendered with obsessive pen-work, and speech balloons integrated so fluidly into composition that the strip became a textbook for later cartoonists. These syndicated daily strips, reprinted in pamphlet collections as early as the 1910s, are among the direct commercial ancestors of the comic book format.