Bringing Up Father — buf390907

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs, the newly-rich Irish-American social climber in top hat and checked suit, lamenting an upcoming country trip with wife Maggie that will make him miss Dinty Moore's clam bake, Dinny McCracker's picnic, Chuck O'Luck's corned-beef-and-cabbage contest, and his own birthday party. His companion registers mounting sympathy as each missed pleasure compounds the last — a classic comic-strip gag built on escalating grievance. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913 for King Features, running it until his death in 1954. Its confident brushwork, decorative backgrounds, and rhythmically spaced speech balloons helped standardize the visual grammar that early comic-book publishers would later repackage wholesale from newspaper syndicate pages into the first true comic books of the 1930s.