Bringing Up Father — buf411026f

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs, a nouveau-riche Irish-American bricklayer, and his social-climbing wife Maggie. In this Sunday page, Jiggs tours a wealthy neighbor's estate — Mr. Lee Vitlay's — enduring a marathon of grand staircases, sun parlors, landscape gardens, and antique chair collections while desperately wanting only a place to sit. McManus draws with fluid Art Nouveau line work: ornate banisters, checkered marble floors, and expressive rubbery figures rendered with confident brushwork. Launched in 1913, the strip ran for decades, its weekly pages helping establish the visual grammar — sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, recurring cast — that Sunday newspaper comics exported directly into the first comic books of the 1930s and 1940s.