Bringing Up Father — buf390815

Four daily panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a domestic moment: Maggie weeps over their children's impending marriages while Jiggs, typically unmoved, notes theirs is 'the happiest an' saddest house I ever saw.' The moment Maggie leaves for the store, he settles into his armchair for peace — only to find a wailing baby has been left behind. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running strips in syndication history. McManus's fluid Art Nouveau line, impeccably dressed characters, and recurring domestic comedy helped establish the visual conventions — sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, recurring cast — that daily newspaper strips carried directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.