Bringing Up Father — buf400202

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in American newspaper history. This daily strip follows the familiar Jiggs-and-Maggie dynamic: here, Jiggs is persuaded to watch winter sports on a lake in Saint Paul or Minneapolis, confidently announces he'll skate despite years away from the ice, and immediately goes flying past onlookers who ask, "Which way did that guy go?" McManus's draftsmanship is elegant — fluid figure work, ornate crosshatching, expressive silhouettes. The copyright line confirms King Features distribution circa 1940. Strips like this one were the direct precursors of the comic book format: their panel-by-panel sequencing, speech balloons, and recurring characters invented the visual grammar that comic books would inherit wholesale.