Bringing Up Father — buf390824

Four panels follow Jiggs and his socially ambitious wife Maggie, the central gag turning on an outlandish English riding habit she plans to wear abroad. Jiggs reacts with slack-jawed horror, muttering she looks like a circus ringmaster; in the final panels he orders a horse hitched up, only to be told the horse will bolt at the sight of her. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, his ligne-claire figures and elegant Art Nouveau interiors setting a visual standard for newspaper comic strips. Those daily and Sunday strips—syndicated to hundreds of papers worldwide—were among the direct ancestors of the comic book, establishing the grammar of sequenced panels, speech balloons, and recurring cast that later anthology reprint comics would inherit wholesale.