Bringing Up Father — buf400312

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs — McManus's perpetually henpecked Irish-American social climber — on a solo errand to Washington, D.C. In the first panel he mutters that Maggie has badgered him into calling on Senator Shunn, and he intends to get it done fast. Panels two and three place him before a grand colonnaded building where a receptionist delivers the standard deflection: the Senator is out for three hours or more. Panel four lands the gag: Jiggs, hat off, sprawled comfortably on a waiting-room sofa, announces he is in no hurry at all. McManus's clean brush line, architectural backgrounds, and expressive silhouettes exemplify the Sunday-page draftsmanship that directly shaped early comic-book layout — panels, speech balloons, recurring cast — making newspaper strips the true first school of sequential art.