Bringing Up Father — buf390919

Three daily panels follow Jiggs and Maggie — George McManus's perennial Irish-American social-climbers — sweating through a Palm Springs winter, grumbling that the desert heat is something you "git used to." The middle panel drops the pair into silhouette against a tall palm, one asking what the valley reminds him of; the answer: decidedly not London. The final panel pivots to two glamorous ranch women, and Jiggs, ever the opportunist, decides he could warm to the place after all. McManus's line is fluid and confident — decorative Art Nouveau curves softening broad slapstick. Launched in 1913 in Hearst papers, *Bringing Up Father* ran for decades, its recurring cast and cliff-hanger continuity directly modeling the anthology reprint format that became the commercial comic book.