Bringing Up Father — buf400123

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, following Irish immigrant nouveau-riche Jiggs and his socially ambitious wife Maggie. In this four-panel daily, the couple's daughter has tried to collect senators' autographs; a darkly silhouetted society figure explains they were too busy governing, then the joke pivots as a crowd of effusive gentlemen mob the women at what appears to be a Hall of Records visit. McManus's line work is elegant and precise — figures in tuxedos rendered with fluid ink economy, speech balloons nested cleanly within panels. His strip ran 45 years and directly shaped early comic book formatting: sequential panels, recurring characters with consistent visual signatures, and dialogue balloons as storytelling architecture rather than illustration afterthought.