Bringing Up Father — buf400329

Four panels follow Jiggs, McManus's perpetually henpecked Irish-American social climber, as a blustering politician announces his presidential candidacy and introduces himself to Maggie and Jiggs—only to be steamrolled by Maggie's monologue about Washington boutiques and the spas of southern France. The gag hinges on the politician's pomposity collapsing against Maggie's unstoppable domestic self-absorption. McManus draws in his signature art-deco line: sleek crosshatching, elegant silhouettes (a bronze equestrian statue fills panel two), and expressive rubber-limbed figures. *Bringing Up Father*, syndicated from 1913, was among the first strips to feature consistent recurring characters driving serialized comedy—the very template, alongside *Mutt and Jeff* and *Krazy Kat*, from which the reprinted newspaper page collections of the 1930s grew directly into the American comic book format.