Bringing Up Father

George McManus's *Bringing Up Father* follows Jiggs, an Irish immigrant who strikes it rich, and his wife Maggie's efforts to climb society. Here, Maggie pours out her worries while Jiggs, absorbed in his own concerns, barely listens—a domestic comedy about class aspiration and marital disconnect. McManus's crisp linework and sequential panel layout helped define newspaper comics' visual language. The strip's ethnic humor reflected early 20th-century entertainment conventions, mining comedy from Irish-American characters navigating wealth and respectability. *Bringing Up Father* ran for decades, appearing in hundreds of papers and influencing how artists structured narrative through panels and speech balloons.