Bringing Up Father — buf430919f

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and by the 1940s it was one of the most widely syndicated strips in the world. This wartime Sunday page shows Jiggs — the Irish-immigrant social climber in his trademark top hat — navigating a parade of neighbors, soldiers, and family members, every one of them pressing him to buy war bonds and stamps. McManus deploys his signature Art Nouveau linework: sinuous black contours, elegantly dressed women, and Jiggs's perpetually harried silhouette threading through a grid of nine panels. The recurring-character format, speech balloons anchored to speaker, and sequential panel rhythm that McManus helped standardize here carry a civilian morale message, demonstrating how the newspaper Sunday page — origin point of the comic book form — could function as both entertainment and propaganda in a single morning's read.