Bringing Up Father — buf390816

Four panels follow Jiggs sneezing and announcing a cold coming on; his wife Maggie dismisses his complaints and orders him to bed, finally weaponizing their grandchild's health to win the argument. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, perfecting an art-deco linework style — arched brows, crosshatched suits, curlicued hair ornaments — that made it one of the most widely syndicated strips on earth. The daily newspaper strip, not the magazine, invented the recurring cast, the sequential panel grid, and the speech balloon as primary storytelling tools. Strips like this one were literally cut, folded, and stapled into the earliest proto-comic books sold on newsstands in the 1930s.