Bringing Up Father — buf401010

Four panels track a domestic power struggle: a stout, spotted-dress woman harangues a man, silencing his protests mid-sentence; he retreats to a back room, gulps a "nerve tonic," and suddenly declares himself master of the house — only to find a crowd of men already there and orders them out the window. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it for over four decades. His Jiggs-and-Maggie dynamic — the nouveau-riche wife versus the corned-beef-and-cabbage husband — became one of syndication's longest franchises. McManus's clean ruled panels, expressive silhouettes, and integrated speech balloons exemplify the newspaper daily's role as the true laboratory of sequential art, decades before the term "comic book" existed.