Bringing Up Father — buf400624

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows nouveau-riche Jiggs and his socially ambitious wife Maggie through four ink-brushed panels here: a tourism agent shows Jiggs local sights, an elevator encounter suggests Jiggs is hiding his hotel stay from Maggie, Maggie herself marvels at the city's landmarks after two hours in the library, then learns Jiggs left his cane on a café rail — implying he was never sightseeing at all. McManus's style is instantly recognizable: sinuous Art Nouveau decorative borders, elegantly cross-hatched backgrounds, and figures built on confident, flowing outlines. Launched in 1913, the strip ran daily and Sunday for decades, helping establish the recurring-character comic strip as a narrative form whose collected reprints directly seeded the first comic books of the 1930s.