Bringing Up Father — buf391127

Five panels follow Jiggs — the parvenu Irishman in top hat and checked suit — as he steps out into warm Chicago weather, meets a friend, and the two men wait for their wives before sightseeing. The final panel delivers the gag: the wives arrive in preposterously oversized, fussy outfits, prompting the husbands' speechless question marks. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. His line work here is fluid and confident — rounded figures, crisp crosshatching, expressive balloon lettering — a style McManus refined directly from the Art Nouveau decorative instincts he absorbed from Mucha. The strip's domestic comedy formula and its recurring cast helped standardize the newspaper comic page conventions that early comic book publishers would wholesale reprint and eventually imitate.