Bringing Up Father — buf391026

Three panels follow the familiar household comedy of *Bringing Up Father*, George McManus's long-running King Features daily strip launched in 1913. Here, Jiggs and Maggie sit at breakfast in Colorado Springs, consulting a sightseeing list; a second panel shows Jiggs cheerfully planning his day in silhouette; the third has Maggie commandeering him and the children for shopping instead, leaving Jiggs speechless with question marks. McManus's linework is fluid and assured — ornate furniture, decorative wallpaper, and fashionably dressed figures reflecting his training in the lush aesthetic of Art Nouveau illustration. *Bringing Up Father* belongs to the first generation of recurring-character newspaper strips — alongside *Mutt and Jeff* and *Krazy Kat* — whose syndicated daily and Sunday pages established the panel grid, speech balloon, and sequential storytelling conventions that direct-descended into the comic book format of the late 1930s.