Bringing Up Father — buf391101

Three panels follow Jiggs, Maggie, and a younger companion driving through the American Southwest toward Santa Fe. In panel one, mountains loom and a road sign anchors the landscape as Jiggs announces their destination. Panel two erupts in comic argument: the boy spots what he takes for a lake; Jiggs corrects him—it's a mirage—while Maggie calls the scenery beautiful. Panel three delivers the payoff: the car plunges into actual water, disproving Jiggs entirely. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features Syndicate in 1913, running it for decades as one of the longest-lived daily strips. McManus's clean Art Nouveau line, consistent recurring cast, and sight-gag pacing directly shaped the visual conventions that newspaper syndicates exported into the first comic book reprints of the 1930s.