Bringing Up Father — buf400414

Four tiers of Sunday-page panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through their familiar domestic battlefield: forgotten groceries, a road trip routed absurdly through Cleveland, Akron, Erie, and Niagara Falls, a missing cape, and a final late-night bench scene where Jiggs longs for Dinty Moore's saloon. George McManus's draftsmanship is immediately legible — rounded figures in bold ink, crosshatched interiors, decorative wallpaper and architectural detail that give every room a vaudeville-set solidity. Speech balloons crowd the upper register while action anchors the lower. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran for decades, its recurring characters and interlocking panel grids helping standardize the visual conventions that newspaper syndicates then exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.