Bringing Up Father — buf430307f

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* ran from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest continuous strips in newspaper history. This Sunday page turns on a classic farce: Jiggs, alone while Maggie is out, dozes off and dreams that polite burglars ransack the house with his cheerful cooperation — offering cigars, letting them take the silver, waving them off when they apologize for lacking a bigger truck. He wakes convinced it was merely a dream; Maggie arrives to find it entirely real. McManus's draftsmanship is elegant and precise — Art Nouveau flourishes on furniture, crisp silhouettes for the thieves, expressive rubber-limbed figures — demonstrating how the Sunday page, with its generous format and sequential panel grammar, taught readers worldwide to read comics.