Bringing Up Father — buf400622

Four panels follow Jiggs and Maggie strolling a city street. Two passing strangers each stop to tell Maggie she looks just like someone named Margie — prompting her to crow that the city is 'proud of its beautiful sights.' The final panel reverses the joke: a man at home tells his wife a stranger complimented her resemblance to Margie, and she icily replies he must be blind. McManus's draftsmanship is elegant — Maggie's towering hat and corseted silhouette rendered in confident brushwork, figures overlapping naturally across panels. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in syndication history. Its recurring characters, flowing panel-to-panel continuity, and integrated speech balloons exemplify the visual grammar American newspaper comics invented — the direct ancestor of the comic book format.