Bringing Up Father — buf400330

Four panels, black-and-white daily ink: Jiggs arrives at a Washington judge's office to find a succession of evasive clerks, each disclaiming knowledge of the judge's whereabouts — until the last reveals the golf sticks are missing, meaning the judge has slipped out to play. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in American syndication. McManus's clean Art Nouveau line, precise crosshatching, and architectural panel borders influenced a generation of cartoonists. The recurring gag — nouveau-riche Jiggs escaping domestic duty — gave readers a fixed cast and serialized humor, the very formula that newspaper syndicates packaged into reprinted pamphlets during the 1930s, directly seeding the comic-book format.