Bringing Up Father — Omaha Daily Bee, June 8, 1913

George McManus launched *Bringing Up Father* in 1913, and this Sunday page from the *Omaha Daily Bee* shows it already fully formed. Six panels track Jiggs, the newly rich Irish-American bricklayer, trying to sneak out on his wedding anniversary while his socially ambitious wife Maggie blocks the door. McManus draws in a clean art-nouveau line — decorative wallpaper, fashionable silhouettes, expressive posture — with speech balloons nested tidily above each figure. The gag turns on class anxiety: Jiggs wants the saloon, Maggie wants propriety. By 1913 the American newspaper strip had already invented its essential tools — the recurring cast, sequential panels, balloon dialogue — tools that would migrate directly into the first comic books of the 1930s, which were literally reprinted Sunday pages bound between covers.