Bringing Up Father — buf410913f

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs, a nouveau-riche Irishman forever fleeing domestic tyranny and high society. In this Sunday page, Jiggs flashes a fat wallet in a tie shop, immediately attracting a pursuer he mistakes for a porch-climbing thief; a slapstick chase unfolds across rooftops, a danger-signed excavation pit, and a collapsing fence before the pursuer turns out merely to be returning the dropped wallet. McManus's draftsmanship is fluid and architectural — ornate Art Nouveau linework, bold silhouettes, and immaculate panel-to-panel staging. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades and its speech-balloon choreography and recurring-character comedy directly seeded the visual grammar that migrated from newspaper pages into the first comic books of the late 1930s.