Bringing Up Father — buf400119

Three panels show Jiggs's wife and a companion outside the White House, spotting a portly figure they take for President Roosevelt emerging from the door to bid someone farewell. The final panel reveals Jiggs shaking hands with 'the President,' starstruck and muttering about Maggie. George McManus's clean brush line, decorative crosshatching, and precisely rendered architectural background typify his draftsmanship. *Bringing Up Father*, syndicated from 1913, was among the longest-running American strips; its immigrant-social-climber premise and slapstick domestic warfare made it a global franchise. McManus helped standardize the multi-panel daily format and the expressive speech balloon that newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic-book reprint anthologies of the 1930s.