Bringing Up Father — buf391222

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber created by George McManus, sweating in a stuffy Erie hotel room. Too tired to open the window himself, he hurls something through the glass, enjoys the fresh air, then faces his imperious wife Maggie demanding why the bookcase glass is broken. McManus's art is unmistakable: art-nouveau linework, diamond-pane windows rendered with crisp crosshatching, and expressive rubber-limbed figures. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades in Hearst syndication, reaching millions of daily readers. These newspaper strips — with their recurring cast, sequential panels, and integrated speech balloons — directly supplied the page format, visual shorthand, and reprint content that became the first comic books of the 1930s.