Bringing Up Father — buf430704f

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, running it continuously for over four decades and making Jiggs and Maggie among the most recognizable figures in American popular culture. This Sunday page follows Jiggs — squat, cigar-chomping, henpecked — as he outsmarts a pushy salesman by accepting a box of cigars, then distributing them to office boys who promptly fall ill; the joke turns on Jiggs alone remaining immune, his vices his armor. McManus's draftsmanship is precise and decorative, his ruled panel borders, looping speech balloons, and crisp cross-hatching representing the fully matured visual grammar newspaper strips handed directly to the first comic-book artists of the 1930s and 40s.