Bringing Up Father — buf391203

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs and Maggie, the Irish-American nouveau-riche couple whose social aspirations collide with Jiggs's love of corned beef and old friends. This Sunday page sends them on a guided tour of Boulder Dam — the guide rattling off engineering statistics (227 square miles of reservoir, 45,000 pounds-per-square-foot base pressure) while Maggie asks about the best store and manicure shop nearby. McManus's draftsmanship is immediately recognizable: sinuous Art Nouveau linework, richly patterned interiors, and expressive silhouette panels. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades and its visual grammar — consistent character design, rhythmic panel pacing, punch-line final beat — helped establish the conventions that Sunday newspaper pages carried directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.