Bringing Up Father — buf391016

Four panels follow the domestic comedy of Maggie and Jiggs, George McManus's long-running strip launched in 1913. Here Maggie sends her daughter to fetch the wayward Jiggs, rumored to be trading with Native Americans in the village; he returns on his own, cheerfully asking help carrying Indian tents from the hall — a Native American figure in full regalia appears at the door. McManus's line work is elegantly curly, his figures round and expressive, speech balloons nested tightly into Art Nouveau–inflected interiors. *Bringing Up Father* ran in Hearst syndication for decades and, alongside *Mutt and Jeff* and *Krazy Kat*, helped establish the daily strip's visual grammar — sequential panels, recurring cast, punch-line final frame — that directly shaped the first comic-book reprint collections of the 1930s.