Bringing Up Father — buf391204

Four panels follow Maggie mid-telephone monologue — rattling off Cleveland sights (the Terminal, the Art Museum, Lakeshore Boulevard) — while Jiggs, dressed to go out, drifts into sleep on the sofa, a question mark and two Z's floating above him. McManus draws the strip in his signature art-nouveau line: sinuous curves, patterned wallpaper, elegantly dressed figures whose body language carries the joke. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 under George McManus for King Features and ran for decades, making Jiggs and Maggie among the most internationally syndicated characters in newspaper history. These daily strips — reprinted in pamphlet form as early as the 1910s — are the direct ancestors of the comic book, proving that recurring characters, sequential panels, and speech balloons could sustain a mass readership across years.