Bringing Up Father — buf400107

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and it ran for decades as one of King Features' most widely syndicated properties. This color Sunday page follows the perennial gag engine: Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American bricklayer, wants to slip away to Dinty Moore's saloon and corned beef; his socially ambitious wife Maggie wants respectability. Here the strip follows the family to New York — Manhattan skyline panels, a Brooklyn cameo, a crowd of neighbors shouting 'Hya-Jiggs,' and Maggie steering everyone toward Park Avenue while Jiggs eyes a cab out of the neighborhood. McManus's ligne claire linework, rounded figures, and architectural backgrounds show the Sunday page at full maturity: a multi-tier grid, integrated speech balloons, and slapstick timing that directly shaped the visual grammar every later cartoonist inherited.