Bringing Up Father — buf400617

Four panels track the eternal domestic standoff between Jiggs, the checkerboard-suited Irish immigrant who struck it rich, and his social-climbing wife Maggie. Here she rebuffs a visitor with theatrical irritation; Jiggs, top-hatted and compact, cheerfully predicts the city will manage without his guided tour; the strip closes with him on a park bench, blissfully wondering about National League standings. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in American newspaper history. McManus's clean Art Nouveau linework, his mastery of expressive silhouette, and his rhythmic panel pacing helped codify the visual grammar — recurring characters, speech balloons, sequential gags — that newspaper dailies passed directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.