Bringing Up Father — buf391019

Four horizontal panels follow a familiar domestic standoff: a woman dispatches her husband to plan a family road trip, he agrees with mild reluctance, their son-in-law feigns interest, then the husband launches into an unstoppable itinerary—Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, La Junta, Trinidad, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells, Fort Morgan, Ogallala, North Platte, Wind Cave, Rapid City—while the son-in-law responds with a single balloon: *WHY?* George McManus created *Bringing Up Father* for King Features in 1913, running it for decades. Its clean brushwork, Art Deco interiors, and expressive balloon lettering refined the daily-strip grammar that directly fed early comic-book page design. McManus's recurring characters—social-climbing Maggie, hapless Jiggs—made serialized personality the engine of newspaper comics worldwide.