Bringing Up Father — buf411130

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* for King Features Syndicate in 1913, and by 1941 it was one of the most widely reprinted strips on earth. These Sunday pages follow Jiggs — the Irish-American bricklayer turned millionaire — and his imperious wife Maggie through a cascade of domestic misadventures: mistaken phone calls, a town dogcatcher in comic disarray, rocking-chair cat chaos, a bicycle borrowed under false pretenses. McManus's ligne claire draftsmanship, decorative Art Nouveau borders, and perfectly timed panel rhythm demonstrate the visual grammar newspaper strips invented — recurring characters, sequential gags, speech balloons integrating text and image — the same grammar that would migrate directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.