Bringing Up Father — buf391003

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, as his wife Maggie heads out shopping in San Francisco and leaves him to rest. The moment she's gone, Jiggs daydreams aloud about going out; a buzzing sound rouses him, and the final panel reveals him already at a swanky restaurant bar — recognized by a waiter as "same old Chappy." George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, his Art Nouveau-influenced linework and precise crosshatching setting a visual standard for the daily strip. Syndicated globally, strips like this one fed directly into the first comic books, which were simply reprinted newspaper dailies — making McManus and his contemporaries the true architects of the sequential-art page.