Bringing Up Father — buf410705

Nine panels follow Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American social climber, through a single Sunday of domestic combat. Returning from a hotel, he collides with Maggie's obsession with antique furniture—an old chair collapses under him, a clock-crowded room tells him nothing, and he eventually escapes to his club, only to be retrieved by an antique automobile Maggie insists is a collector's piece. McManus draws in flowing Art Nouveau lines softened into broad comedy: elaborate crosshatching, ornate clocks, and characters rendered with balloon heads and spindly legs. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran for decades and its Sunday pages—like this one—were precisely the format that printers collected, trimmed, and stapled into the first comic books during the 1930s.