Bringing Up Father — buf390902

Four panels follow Jiggs—the Irish-immigrant social climber in top hat and checkered vest—and his patrician antagonist through a deadpan exchange about a proposed lion-hunting trip to Africa. When Jiggs mentions he once had a brother who went there to hunt, the punchline lands quietly: the brother died not of lions but of jungle fever, prompting the rueful sign-off, *"It was nice to have known me."* George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades in syndication worldwide. His clean, rounded line and elegant Art Nouveau–inflected backgrounds set a visual standard for the daily strip format—the very compressed sequential grammar of panels and speech balloons that anthology reprint collections would soon codify into the comic book itself.