Bringing Up Father — buf400317

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows the eternal collision between Jiggs—a newly rich Irish-American bricklayer who pines for corned beef and saloon pals—and his socially ambitious wife Maggie. These Sunday pages track the couple through Washington, D.C.: the Capitol dome, the Washington Monument (where Jiggs appears at a window), and a crowd scene exploding with slapstick chaos beneath a giant "JIGGS!" sign. McManus's line work is elegant and precise—Art Nouveau curves in the architecture, figures dressed in exaggerated finery. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades and helped establish the recurring-cast serial comic as a viable commercial form, its panel-and-balloon grammar feeding directly into the first collected comic books of the 1930s.