Bringing Up Father — buf400702

Three horizontal panels show Maggie, hair piled high and gown elaborate, announcing a musicale to mark the family's return to high society; Jiggs, hapless in checked vest, tries to deflect her with a cutting aside about renting a ballpark. The gag pivots on the grand ballroom being already booked by a Mr. Dinty Moore — the name of Jiggs's beloved Irish saloon — leaving Maggie mid-sentence and outraged. George McManus's ligne claire linework, expressive hatching, and fluid speech balloons exemplify the daily-strip grammar he helped standardize after 1913. *Bringing Up Father*, syndicated from 1913 onward, ran in hundreds of papers worldwide and fed directly into the first comic-book reprints of the 1930s, making strips like this literal building blocks of the medium.