Bringing Up Father — buf400523

Four panels from George McManus's long-running daily strip follow Jiggs's wife—the socially ambitious Mrs. Jiggs—being chauffeured through Reno by a friend of her sister Lucy. The women trade competitive patter about Paris fashions and stunning hats while a uniformed driver navigates a sleek automobile; the final panel, marked *Continued*, leaves Mrs. Jiggs mid-boast about a gown. McManus's draftsmanship is fluid and decorative, his figures dressed with care, his speech balloons dense with one-upmanship. *Bringing Up Father*, syndicated from 1913, was among the strips whose recurring characters, panel grids, and balloon conventions gave newspaper comics their visual language—and whose collected reprints helped define what a comic book could be.