Bringing Up Father — buf391210

Two sequential Sunday pages follow Jiggs and Maggie through a job-hunting errand (a *Boy Wanted* sign, a sympathetic employer) and a family trip to Chicago, where Maggie commandeers a portfolio of sightseeing plans while Jiggs tries to slip away to meet an old buddy — only to be caught, hat in hand, at a parlor tea. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, pioneering the recurring-cast domestic comedy strip. His ligne-claire linework, art-deco interiors, and precisely choreographed panel flow — characters entering left, exiting right, reaction close-ups cutting the action — became foundational grammar for the Sunday page format that directly seeded the first saddle-stitched comic books of the 1930s.