Bringing Up Father — buf400114

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant bricklayer turned millionaire, perpetually caught between his wife Maggie's social ambitions and his own fondness for corned beef and the boys. This Sunday page runs a dual storyline: Maggie dispatches herself on a shopping drive while Jiggs retreats to a hotel, where a relay of bellboys descends on him demanding tips he cannot afford — the strip's signature gag of petit humiliation. McManus's draftsmanship is ornate: Art Nouveau furniture, cross-hatched wallpaper, and figures in crisp silhouette. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* helped establish the recurring-character Sunday page as a narrative form, its panel-to-panel continuity and speech balloons becoming foundational grammar for the comic book medium that followed two decades later.