Bringing Up Father — buf400918

Five panels show Jiggs, George McManus's Irish-immigrant social climber, retrieving a newspaper aboard a ship's deck and gleefully heading outside to read the sports page. The wind has other plans: pages explode from his hands in a chaotic swirl of flying newsprint across three middle panels, leaving him empty-handed and sardonic — *"Well — that's that!"* McManus's draftsmanship is fluid and elegant, his line work balletic even in slapstick. Bringing Up Father launched in 1913 and ran for nearly a century, making it one of the longest continuous strips in newspaper history. McManus helped codify the recurring-character domestic comedy strip — the genre that fed directly into the first comic book anthologies of the late 1930s, which simply reprinted such daily and Sunday pages.