Bringing Up Father — buf410927f

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs, a newly-rich Irish-American laborer, and his social-climbing wife Maggie. In this Sunday page, Jiggs visits a butcher's shop, overhears a phone order from the fashionable Mrs. Phil Le O'Beef, and Maggie schemes to call on her — only to find the O'Beefs had already come calling and left. McManus's clean brush line, decorative black masses, and crowded speech balloons exemplify the mature Sunday-page grammar that strips like *Yellow Kid* and *Little Nemo* pioneered around 1895–1905. That visual syntax — sequential panels, recurring characters, integrated dialogue — directly seeded the comic-book format. Running from 1913 to 1954, *Bringing Up Father* was among the most widely syndicated strips in the world.