Bringing Up Father — buf400422

Four panels: Jiggs collapses into an armchair complaining that "tramping around the country" is killing him, calls for Maggie to bring his slippers, gets them, then moans his feet are still killing him — whereupon Maggie, dressed to go out, orders him to put on his best shoes. The final panel catches him mid-scramble, shoe in hand, grumbling "I'm out now." George McManus's clean line work, cross-hatched suit, and brick-shaped head are instantly recognizable. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was one of the first strips to anchor recurring domestic comedy to a fixed visual vocabulary — consistent character design, integrated speech balloons, and strict panel rhythm — techniques that newspaper syndicates codified and that early comic-book anthologists simply reprinted, making the Sunday page and daily strip the direct progenitors of the American comic book.