Bringing Up Father — buf400824

George McManus's long-running daily strip follows Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber whose domestic life is a catalogue of comic indignities. In this four-panel sequence, Jiggs resolves to silence his noisy neighbors by banging a pan — stars and impact lines exploding across the panel in McManus's characteristically vigorous pen work — only to learn at the door that *he* is the disturbance. The irony lands in a single exclamation balloon. McManus's brushwork, with its confident outlines, cross-hatched vests, and expressive figure staging, exemplifies the newspaper daily's visual grammar: sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, and a recurring cast whose status comedy required no introduction. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* helped establish the conventions that comic books, arriving in the 1930s as reprinted strip collections, would inherit wholesale.