Bringing Up Father — buf410524

Two strips share this Sunday broadsheet: Rosie's Beau (top), in which a hapless salesman is coached to wine-and-dine an Eastern buyer, only to find himself seated across from the formidable Miss Dash; and the main event, Bringing Up Father, George McManus's long-running saga of Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irishman who can't navigate his own mansion. Here Jiggs roller-skates through cavernous rooms, shouts for Maggie across an ornate staircase, interrogates a parade of fired servants who can't find their way out, and finally resorts to the telephone. McManus's line is sinuous art-nouveau elegance—arched doorways, floral urns, patterned wallpaper—wrapped around pure vaudeville timing. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for nearly nine decades, its recurring cast and panel-by-panel visual rhythm helping standardize the grammar every subsequent comic strip and comic book would inherit.