Bringing Up Father — buf401223

Four panels follow Jiggs — George McManus's rotund, checked-suited Irish-American social climber — on a blustery city street, a small dog trotting at his heels. He sighs "Ah — what a day!", encounters a mailbox that seems to stare back (a question mark floating above), battles the wind near a lamp post, and strides off past a telephone pole, strip marked *Continued*. McManus's line is elegant and economical: thick contour, crosshatched vest, expressive smoke curls from Jiggs's cigar. Running from 1913 to 1954, *Bringing Up Father* was among the daily and Sunday strips whose repeating cast, sequential panels, and speech balloons forged the visual language that comic books would directly inherit.