Bringing Up Father — buf401217

Four panels follow Jiggs, McManus's eternally henpecked Irish-American social climber, arriving home hoping for a quiet evening—only to hear someone inside playing piano and singing "May Fell in Love with August in the Merry Month of June." The final panel finds a fur-coated woman outside wondering whether "Dinty" is at his place at this late hour. McManus's art is immediately recognizable: Art Nouveau-inflected linework, diamond-patterned suits, exaggerated rubber-limbed figures, and meticulously drafted architectural interiors. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for over sixty years and exemplifies the Sunday newspaper page as the true cradle of sequential art—recurring characters, speech balloons, and panel-to-panel visual storytelling that directly shaped the comic book form.