Bringing Up Father — buf400306

George McManus's long-running strip follows Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American laborer turned millionaire, forever sneaking away from his socially ambitious wife Maggie to eat corned beef and cabbage at a working-class café. Here, four panels turn on a single joke: Maggie sends Jiggs to visit Vice-President John Nance Garner at his private club, only for Jiggs to discover Garner himself lunching on corned beef and cabbage — and returns home grinning at the shared taste. McManus's draftsmanship is elegant and precise, his figure linework fluid, his interiors lush with hatched detail. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the newspaper strips whose panel sequences, speech balloons, and recurring cast directly shaped the visual syntax that early comic books would inherit wholesale.