Bringing Up Father — buf400725

Four panels follow Jiggs, the newly rich Irish-American social climber, as a visitor leaves a message at his door, then returns with a process server delivering a jury-duty subpoena. McManus draws in his signature art-nouveau-inflected line: swelling brushwork, patterned suits, exaggerated posture, speech balloons integrated tightly into each composition. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 and ran continuously for decades, making it one of the longest-lived strips in American syndication. McManus inherited and refined the visual conventions Outcault and Dirks had pioneered — sequential panels, consistent recurring characters, gag-per-strip pacing — the very grammar that Sunday broadsheet pages exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.