Bringing Up Father — buf391012

Three panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber in top hat and checkered suit, and his stiff companion at Yellowstone Park, where geysers erupt behind them. Jiggs phones Jerry to report that he has counted "at least twenty fire hydrants that are busted" — mistaking Old Faithful's geysers for broken plumbing. The final panel cuts to a domestic interior where the punchline lands. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913 for King Features Syndicate, running it until his death in 1954. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework, precise cross-hatching, and fluid speech-balloon integration helped codify the visual language that daily strips handed directly to the first comic books of the late 1930s.