Bringing Up Father — buf430725f

Twelve panels track Jiggs and Maggie's familiar domestic tug-of-war: Maggie wants to sell their house and trade up; Jiggs is dispatched to find a real-estate agent, promptly becomes a buyer himself, and is unwittingly shown his *own* home — ending with Maggie's fist and a shower of stars. McManus's line is elegant and economical: crosshatched interiors, a round-fendered automobile, and expressive silhouettes give the Sunday page visual rhythm without a wasted mark. Launched in 1913, *Bringing Up Father* was among the first strips to build comedy from a fixed cast across years of continuity, helping establish the recurring-character strip as a commercial and narrative form — the structural ancestor of the comic book page that followed two decades later.