Bringing Up Father — buf411123f

George McManus's long-running Sunday page follows Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American, trying to escape his social-climbing wife Maggie's latest domestic scheme. Here she redecorates his room with cupid wallpaper, pink doilies, a portrait of herself, and a piano — leaving Jiggs literally no floor space. He flees; she sends him to the jail hospital. McManus's line work is elegant and precise: Art Nouveau flourishes on staircases and curtains, expressive rubbery figures, and densely packed speech balloons that drive a tight comic rhythm across twelve panels. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* ran until 2000, making it one of the longest continuous strips in syndication history and a foundational text in establishing the recurring-character domestic comedy that newspaper pages — and eventually comic books — would rely on for decades.