Bringing Up Father — buf401227

Four panels follow Jiggs, the pug-nosed, checkered-suited Irish-American social climber, as he envies men who dominate their wives. A stranger boasts he is a 'Julius Caesar' at home; Jiggs is visibly impressed — until the man's wife appears at the door calling 'Caesar, come in the house,' and he trots obediently inside. McManus's brushwork is precise: thick ink outlines, decorative wallpaper patterns, and expressive balloon lettering. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips to build comedy from a fixed domestic situation and recurring cast, helping establish the weekly page format — the direct ancestor of the comic book — as a storytelling medium with its own visual syntax.