Bringing Up Father — buf401123

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and by 1940 it ran in hundreds of papers worldwide. This four-panel daily strip follows Jiggs — top-hatted, newly rich Irish-American — as his daughter Nora asks what he plans to do with a worthless property her mother bought. Jiggs storms off to confront the real-estate agent who sold it, only to be coolly turned away and advised to buy *another* property to reach his own. He returns empty-handed. McManus drew with a fluid, Art Nouveau line — elegant furniture, expressive gestures, impeccably rendered clothing — in pointed contrast to Jiggs's hapless scheming. The strip's recurring domestic comedy of social climbing, long predating the comic book, helped establish the speech balloon and multi-panel sequential gag as the DNA of American graphic narrative.