Bringing Up Father — buf400415

Four panels: Maggie rhapsodizes about romantic Tulsa while Jiggs, small and hen-pecked, sits buried in a chair. She asks whether he will love her when she is old and gray; he answers 'I do — Maggie'; she reacts with a baffled 'WHAT?'; in the final panel Jiggs perches alone atop a city derrick at night, muttering that he is beginning to wonder whether it pays to tell the truth. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in syndication history. His clean brushwork, decorative interiors, and expressive balloon lettering helped codify the visual conventions — recurring cast, escalating domestic tension, punchline final panel — that newspaper comic pages exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.