Bringing Up Father — buf400109

Four panels track two separate misadventures: a woman and her daughter admire an elaborate Parisian hat in a shop, the shopkeeper noting few women dare wear such a style; the woman resolves to sport it to Independence Hall that afternoon. Cut to a disheveled man stumbling home after a grand night out in Philadelphia, hunting his missing collar button—and being caught mid-sheepish-confession by a furious wife. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making Jiggs and Maggie among the longest-running characters in comic-strip history. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework and his rigid panel grid—speech balloons anchored firmly to speaker—exemplify the visual conventions that newspaper syndicates standardized and that early comic-book publishers lifted wholesale when they began reprinting strips as pamphlets in the 1930s.