Bringing Up Father — buf420104f

George McManus's long-running Sunday page follows Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish immigrant who just wants to doze by the fire, and his socially ambitious wife Maggie. This installment runs four tiers: Jiggs napping, Maggie needling; a bell-wiring gag at his office where technicians connect desk buzzers to summon employees; Jiggs rhapsodizing about six-month Arctic nights; and the punchline chaos when every bell rings at once. McManus's line work is ornate — curling wallpaper, patterned upholstery, tuxedos rendered with Art Nouveau fluency. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips to establish the recurring cast, sequential panel grammar, and speech-balloon conventions that Sunday newspaper pages exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.