Bringing Up Father — buf401105

Four panels follow Jiggs, the put-upon Irish-American social climber, who has retreated to his office to escape domestic duties — only to have his imperious wife Maggie track him down mid-shopping trip, dump armloads of packages on his desk, and announce she'll be back for more. The final panel, labeled 'Later,' shows him buried under a towering avalanche of boxes. George McManus drew *Bringing Up Father* from 1913 until his death in 1954, his ligne-claire linework and elegantly dressed figures reflecting his admiration for Aubrey Beardsley. Syndicated globally by King Features, the strip pioneered the recurring-cast daily comic — the very template that newspaper pages assembled into the first comic books of the 1930s.