Bringing Up Father — buf421115f

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and by the 1940s it was one of the most widely syndicated strips on earth. This full-page Sunday installment is a vaudeville reverie: Jiggs and a companion reminisce about minstrel shows, hoofers, illustrated songs, tramp bicycle-riders, bottle-playing musicians, strongmen, trained dogs, and the great impersonator obsessed with Ulysses S. Grant. McManus crowds sixteen panels with dense crosshatching, balloons packed with deadpan nostalgia, and performers tumbling across the page. His fluid brushwork and elegant figure-staging—honed over three decades—exemplify the Sunday page format that directly fed the first comic-book reprints of the 1930s, making McManus a foundational architect of the medium's visual language.