Bringing Up Father — buf400905

Four panels aboard a yacht: Jiggs, wearing a commodore's uniform, congratulates himself on owning the craft; Maggie intercepts him with a sharp question mark and a shove toward his stateroom; he emerges chastened onto the deck; then relays Maggie's orders to the captain, who replies with a meek "Yes — me love." George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, refining a clean Art Deco line and elegant crosshatching that influenced a generation of cartoonists. The strip's domestic comedy — social-climbing wife, hapless husband — ran in hundreds of papers worldwide. Such Sunday pages and dailies, syndicated at scale, supplied the direct-cut reprints that became the first comic books in the early 1930s, making strips like this one the literal origin of the medium.