Bringing Up Father — buf400701

Four panels, no color: Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant-made-good, complains his feet are killing him and he dreads the sightseeing Maggie will surely demand. He racks his brain for excuses — and finds none good enough. Then he spots rain pelting the window and shouts it like a reprieve. Final panel: Jiggs reclines on a chaise, utterly at ease, murmuring "Ain't nature grand?" George McManus launched the strip in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. His brushwork — fluid Art Nouveau figures, crosshatched interiors, expressive balloon lettering — influenced a generation of cartoonists. Sunday pages like this one, syndicated nationwide, were the direct material reprinted in the first comic books of the 1930s, making McManus a foundational architect of the medium's visual language.