Bringing Up Father — buf420823f

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in American newspaper history. This Sunday page follows Jiggs — stout, hat-tilted, eternally scheming — as he anticipates a holiday loafing at Dugan's, only to be conscripted into his wife Maggie's house-cleaning marathon. McManus traces the domestic trap across four tiers: phone call, furniture hauling, a box strapped to Jiggs's back, and the weary reckoning at day's end. The draftsmanship is confident Art Deco linework — decorative wallpaper, grandfather clocks, exaggerated posture — and the gag engine is pure repetition-with-escalation, the structural formula Sunday strips perfected and that early comic books directly inherited as their page grammar.