Bringing Up Father — buf390908

Four panels follow Jiggs, the newly wealthy Irish-American social climber, as he schemes to postpone a trip his wife Maggie has planned. Hatching a plot in panel one, he suggests in panel two that Maggie needs more singing lessons before they can travel — only to be outmaneuvered in the final panel when Maggie announces she is bringing her singing teacher along. McManus draws in his signature Art Deco-inflected line: angular figures, checked suits, expressive hair. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 with George McManus and ran for decades in syndication, appearing in hundreds of daily papers worldwide. These newspaper dailies — serialized, character-driven, panel-and-balloon strips — directly seeded the comic book format that emerged in the 1930s by training readers in sequential visual storytelling.