Bringing Up Father — buf391209

Four panels follow the recurring McManus household trio: a curly-haired young woman and her beau agree on an auto trip to Toledo, Erie, and Pittsburgh; they recruit Father to outvote Mother, who insists on train travel; Father cheerfully sides with the auto faction — until the final panel, where a question mark hangs in the air as someone notes that Maggie (the formidable matriarch, offpanel) remains unconvinced. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. Its clean ink line, architectural panel borders, and expressive balloon lettering helped codify the daily comic strip as a distinct narrative form — the direct ancestor of the comic book page that would crystallize in 1938.