Bringing Up Father — buf400528

Six panels follow Jiggs and Maggie's husband-and-wife duo up a steep mountain in pursuit of a rumored tavern at the summit — only to discover, exhausted at the top, they've climbed the wrong peak entirely. McManus draws the ascent with sharp silhouette panels mid-strip, the black crags swallowing the figures, before opening again into detailed linework for the comic payoff. *Bringing Up Father*, launched in 1913, was among the longest-running and most widely syndicated strips in American newspaper history. McManus refined the visual grammar his predecessors had sketched: consistent character design across panels, integrated speech balloons, and sequential staging that would directly shape the anthology reprint format — the comic *book* itself.