Bringing Up Father — buf400424

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* runs four panels here: a young woman tells Jiggs a visiting politician wants to meet him; the politician offers Jiggs the key to the city; Jiggs, suspecting dinnertime motives, sizes up his guest; and the final punchline confirms the man was indeed a politician — he left with the silverware implied. McManus drew with an elegant, brush-confident line — decorative wallpaper, fashionable figures, expressive hands. Launched in 1913, the strip joined the newspaper comic page that literally invented the comic book form: syndicated daily and Sunday strips gave artists panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters — the structural vocabulary that anthology reprint magazines such as *Famous Funnies* (1934) simply bound and sold.