Bringing Up Father — buf400525

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs and Maggie through a social departure and its aftermath. In the first, the couple bid elaborate goodbyes at a car; Jiggs quips about Mrs. Maraggen's impending divorce. Panels two and three capture his exasperated wonder at a chatty woman who eclipsed every sight worth seeing. The final panel shows Maggie dissecting the same woman — her hat, her makeup, her dress — with gleeful precision. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His clean ink line, expressive balloon lettering, and panel-to-panel comedic timing made the strip a template for the medium. These newspaper pages — Sunday and daily — were the direct ancestor of the comic book format, proving that recurring characters and sequential art could sustain mass popular culture across generations.