Bringing Up Father — buf400914

Four panels chart a familiar humiliation: Jiggs, cigar clamped in hand, is shooed off the deck for smoking, scolded for wearing the wrong shoes, ordered to mop and polish—then found dangling from the anchor chain, the one spot nobody can bother him. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, making Jiggs and his social-climbing wife Maggie two of the longest-running characters in American comics. McManus's draftsmanship—fluid line, bold silhouette, Art Nouveau ornament absorbed into workaday gag strips—influenced a generation of cartoonists. The Sunday pages and syndicatedaily strips he helped perfect supplied the page-layout conventions, speech balloons, and recurring-cast continuity that early comic-book publishers would directly repackage, panel by panel, into the first anthology comics of the 1930s.