Bringing Up Father — buf401031

Four panels follow Jiggs, George McManus's perpetually henpecked Irish-American arriviste, as he sneaks out early to avoid domestic strife — only to be intercepted by a servant bearing breakfast, then caught bragging about a night-club outing where the waiter thanked him for a tip. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive: heavily inked tuxedos, ornate wallpaper crosshatching, and characters rendered with rubbery expressiveness. Speech balloons carry Jiggs's working-class dialect intact. *Bringing Up Father* launched in 1913 in Hearst syndication and ran for decades, making McManus one of the architects of the modern comic strip — the recurring cast, sequential panels, and integrated balloon lettering that newspaper pages pioneered directly shaped the comic-book format that followed in the late 1930s.