Bringing Up Father — buf390913

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, and a top-hatted companion plotting a night on the town while their wives stay home. Jiggs produces a list of destinations — Murphy's, the Tropics lodge — only to confess in the punchline that Mrs. Jiggs won't let him go out either. George McManus's linework is immediately recognizable: elegantly dressed figures, decorative Art Nouveau interior details, and expressive open mouths selling the gag. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades in syndication, making McManus one of the architects of the daily comic strip's visual language — the locked panel grid, the speech balloon as narrative engine, the recurring cast whose domestic tensions reset daily and kept millions of readers returning.