Bringing Up Father — buf400928

Four panels track Jiggs's familiar domestic escape: on the telephone promising Dinty Moore corned beef and cabbage, then announcing to his wife Maggie that he is going out and won't say when he'll return, then slipping out the door. In the final panel a bystander remarks he looks just like Margie — a jest that deflates Jiggs's strutting exit. George McManus draws with fluid Art Deco line work: tiled floors recede in perspective, a chandelier hangs with crisp economy, and speech balloons fit the pacing like stage directions. McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and its thirty-year newspaper run shaped the visual grammar — recurring character, sequential gag, balloon-and-panel rhythm — that daily strips handed directly to the first comic book editors.