Bringing Up Father — buf391201

Four panels follow Jiggs, the rough-diamond Irish-American social climber, as he takes a phone call from a bartender pal at a hotel bar, schemes to slip downstairs to meet him, and is intercepted by his formidable wife Maggie — who issues her standard command (hat, coat, quick, no talk-back) before Jiggs resignedly answers the phone with a meek hello. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* for King Features from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running daily strips in syndication history. McManus refined the speech balloon and sequential panel grammar that would migrate directly into comic books by decade's end, his elegant Art Nouveau line work contrasting sharply with the domestic slapstick it contained.