Bringing Up Father — buf400821

Four panels follow Jiggs, the parvenu Irish-American in top hat and checked suit, as he spots a woman who resembles someone named Margie, wonders aloud who she is, rushes toward a doorway crying "Margie—Come Here!", then finds only a shaggy dog waiting—who has apparently been following him home. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* continuously from 1913 until his death in 1954, making it one of the longest-running character studies in comics history. His clean Art Deco linework, confident brushwork, and theatrical staging—characters placed like actors on a shallow stage—influenced a generation of cartoonists. The strip's speech balloons, recurring cast, and sequential panel grammar were foundational blueprints that daily newspaper pages handed directly to the first comic book editors of the 1930s.