Bringing Up Father — buf390825

Three panels follow a domestic scene in which a woman enthuses over naming a baby 'Jiggie,' her husband skeptical but curious. They test the name on the infant, who responds with 'Wow' and 'Goo,' which the mother instantly reads as joyful approval. The draftsmanship is assured: crosshatched interiors, expressive rubbery figures, speech balloons integrated tightly into the compositions. *Bringing Up Father*, created by George McManus for King Features Syndicate (launched 1913), ran for decades in newspapers worldwide. Daily strips and Sunday pages like this one were the direct ancestors of the comic book — their recurring characters, sequential panels, and balloon dialogue established conventions that anthology reprint comics, then original-content comics, simply inherited wholesale.