Bringing Up Father — buf400405

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for decades as one of the longest-lived strips in syndication. This four-panel daily follows Jiggs — the checkerboard-suited Irish-American social climber — and his imperious wife Maggie. Here Jiggs visits J. Edgar Hoover's office to trace a missing cousin Dan, only to learn the man fled Washington on a stolen bicycle and is now wanted for a Hoboken bank holdup. McManus's draftsmanship is fluid and decorative, indebted to Art Nouveau curves. The strip exemplifies the newspaper daily's narrative grammar — sequential panels, speech balloons carrying the full comedic load, a recurring cast — the very conventions that migrated wholesale into the comic book format emerging in the late 1930s.