Bringing Up Father — buf400619

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* — running continuously from 1913 to 2000 — follows Irish immigrant Jiggs, a lottery-winner trapped between his nouveau-riche wife Maggie and his love of corned beef and saloons. In this four-panel daily, Maggie tries to fit a package into Jiggs's travel grip, dispatches a maid to check his room, and concludes she can make space by removing six corned beef sandwiches, five heads of cabbage, and a dozen mystery bottles — Jiggs, startled by the open trunk lid, twice exclaims "Huh?" McManus's clean ink line, decorative spotted dress patterns, and fluid balloon lettering exemplify the polished draftsmanship that made newspaper comic strips — dailies and Sunday pages alike — the direct template for the comic book format that emerged in the 1930s.