Bringing Up Father — buf390920

Three-panel daily strip by George McManus, *Bringing Up Father* (syndicated from 1913). Here Jiggs and a companion stroll past a Native American man near Palm Springs; Jiggs mocks the man's traditional dress while remaining oblivious to his own outlandish formal costume — the strip's signature irony. In the final panel the Native American man fires back with a stock-market question, puncturing the visitors' pomposity. McManus's line is assured and elegant: cross-hatched mountain backgrounds, expressive rubbery figures, immaculate hand-lettered balloons. *Bringing Up Father* ran in Hearst papers for decades and its recurring cast of social climbers helped establish daily newspaper strips as a narrative form whose panel grammar, balloon conventions, and page rhythms directly shaped the first reprinted comic books of the 1930s.