Bringing Up Father — buf400527

Six panels follow Jiggs sneaking into Casey's Inn to enjoy music, while his socially ambitious wife Maggie schemes to silence the noise by summoning the hotel manager. The joke pivots when the "noise" turns out to be a singer whom Jiggs adores — until a dog howls and ruins it. McManus's draftsmanship is unmistakable: elegant Art Nouveau flourishes, crosshatched check patterns on suits, and expressive rubbery figures. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for nearly a century and helped standardize the visual conventions — sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, recurring cast — that Sunday newspaper pages exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.