Bringing Up Father — buf400407

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and it ran continuously for decades—one of the longest-lived gag strips in American newspaper history. These pages follow Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American bricklayer, and his imperious wife Maggie through a tangle of domestic forgetfulness: a lost purse, misplaced slippers, wrong keys, and a punchline reveal that the family has arrived not in Baltimore but in Trenton, New Jersey. McManus drew in a clean art-nouveau line with boldly patterned wallpapers and costumes that gave the strip unusual visual elegance. His work exemplifies how the syndicated Sunday page—multiple tiers of sequential panels with integrated speech balloons—established the visual grammar that early comic-book publishers would simply reprint and, eventually, imitate.