Bringing Up Father — buf400303

Two storylines fill this Sunday page: a running telephone gag in which a man repeatedly tries to reach 'Archie' only to find the line perpetually busy, followed by the strip's main event — Jiggs and Maggie attempting ice-skating at Lake Placid with predictably disastrous results. Jiggs pops vest buttons, crashes through a clubhouse door, and ends up embedded in the trophy case, earning an inadvertent cup for 'acrobatic skating.' George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its eighteen-panel Sunday pages represent the mature American comic strip at full stretch: fluid brushwork, expressive silhouettes, and a domestic comedy formula — social-climbing wife, reluctant husband — that ran for decades and directly shaped the anthology reprint pamphlets that became the modern comic book.