Bringing Up Father — buf430808f

Jiggs and Maggie anchor this twelve-panel Sunday page by George McManus, who launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913 and ran it for decades. The gag turns on forged theatre tickets: someone sends identical invitations to Jiggs's household and to the Armand Leggs family, each believing the other sent them; while both parties sit baffled in the theatre, a burglar cleans out the house. McManus's clean brushwork, exaggerated silhouettes, and confident panel-to-panel staging show the Sunday page at full maturity — the recurring-character strip, speech balloon choreography, and sequential gag architecture that newspaper comics invented and that comic books directly inherited.