Bringing Up Father — buf391217

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows nouveau-riche Jiggs and his socially ambitious wife Maggie through two distinct storylines here: an office farce involving a boss named Archie sneaking out to lunch, and a Grand Canyon mule-ride with the family's bridal-tour party, culminating in a canyon-bottom encounter with Native performers who demand quiet from the singing tourists. McManus draws with a jeweler's precision — ornate Art Nouveau borders, immaculate figure draftsmanship, vivid color. Syndicated from 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the Sunday pages whose panel sequences, recurring characters, and speech balloons gave newspaper comics their grammar — the same pages that, collected and stapled in the 1930s, became the first comic books.