Bringing Up Father — buf401029

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant social climber, sitting in an armchair at home. His fashionably dressed daughter arrives early, saying she waited for him to wake so she could kiss him goodbye; she then fusses over him, tucking a pillow behind his back while he looks mildly baffled. The final panel shows her smothering him with farewell embraces as he asks what on earth is happening. George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in syndication history. McManus's fluid Art Nouveau linework and his recurring cast of domestic archetypes helped establish the visual conventions—sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, weekly continuity—that newspaper comic pages exported directly into the first comic books of the 1930s.