Bringing Up Father — buf400218

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows nouveau-riche Jiggs and his social-climbing wife Maggie through a multi-strip Sunday page. Here, a visiting cousin named Larry Barry — a coal-mine figure near Pittsburgh — arrives to comic chaos: Maggie schemes to impress company presidents while Jiggs trudges through a mine shaft in search of a man who turns out to be sleeping on the job. McManus's clean Art Deco linework, elaborate floral wallpaper, and expressive rubbery figures are instantly recognizable. Launched in 1913, the strip ran continuously for decades and exemplifies how the weekly Sunday page — with its sequenced panels, speech balloons, and recurring cast — provided the direct structural template from which the American comic book would emerge.