Bringing Up Father — buf420628f

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest-lived strips in American newspaper history. This Sunday page follows Jiggs's familiar routine: the moment Maggie leaves for a first-aid class, he escapes — here literally, sliding down construction scaffolding ten stories above the street rather than use the front door she's forbidden him. The physical comedy escalates panel by panel in McManus's signature Art Nouveau linework: sinuous staircases, cross-hatched ironwork, Jiggs tumbling in silhouette. The strip lands him at Maggie's feet as her class subject. McManus helped standardize the recurring-cast domestic comedy and the flowing balloon-and-panel syntax that newspaper syndicates exported worldwide, directly seeding the comic-book format publishers were already packaging from Sunday page reprints.