Bringing Up Father — buf400717

Four panels follow Jiggs as Maggie banishes him from a room being painted. He shuffles upstairs clutching ledgers, muttering he'll balance Maggie's bank account — only for her to burst in shrieking that he's sitting on her antique chair and touching her table cover. George McManus draws his signature Art Nouveau interiors, curlicued hair, and rubber-limbed figures with confident brushwork and dense crosshatching. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips syndicated coast to coast, its recurring domestic battlefield supplying the repeating cast and sequential panel grammar that newspaper funny pages handed directly to the comic book format emerging through the late 1930s.