Bringing Up Father — buf391104

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie's familiar domestic scramble: Maggie insists they flee a desert locale for Chicago, Jiggs heads to the train depot where a hotel owner is dodging police, a ticket clerk is asked whether an express runs through, and the final two panels detonate into slapstick chaos as a speeding locomotive blows everything sideways, leaving Jiggs stunned on the platform. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its clean brush line, expressive balloon lettering, and repeating cast modeled conventions that migrated directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s — reprints of newspaper strips that publishers simply cut, pasted, and stapled into pamphlet form, making the daily strip the true structural ancestor of the comic book page.