Bringing Up Father — buf400801

Four panels follow Maggie and Jiggs through a domestic misunderstanding: a man apparently mistook Maggie for their daughter Margie, and Maggie—dressed in her signature polka-dot finery and elaborate hat—cycles from mild vanity to distraction when she hears the cook returning, only to meet a stranger at the door who says she looks like Margie, prompting her deadpan "You?" George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it until his death in 1954. His clean ink line, decorative Art Nouveau patterning on clothing and interiors, and brisk balloon-driven comedy made it one of the most widely syndicated strips in the world. Sunday newspaper strips like this one—printed in sequence, featuring recurring characters with established relationships—were the direct template from which the comic book format was assembled and sold.