Bringing Up Father — buf391124

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a Chicago hotel room argument. Jiggs wants to slip out and see the stockyards and Field Museum; Maggie, shown in her signature outsized hat and fur coat, blocks every exit, threatening to call up every five minutes to confirm he hasn't sneaked off. The final panel finds Jiggs slumped in a chair, muttering he can't even see Lake Michigan from the window. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades as one of the most widely syndicated daily strips in the world. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework, expressive silhouettes, and tightly timed panel rhythm helped establish the daily strip as a self-sufficient comedic form — recurring characters, compressed dialogue, and a reliable closing visual punchline that cartoonists everywhere absorbed as foundational grammar.