Bringing Up Father

A Sunday newspaper comic strip featuring the domestic misadventures of a wealthy Irish-American family. The strip employs the visual language that defined early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags built through narrative flow. Father's schemes and the family's social pretensions drive the humor across twelve panels, moving from interior scenes to street chaos. Published in The Washington Times, this strip exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1920s expanded beyond single-panel cartoons into serialized storytelling. The format—multiple tier strips with consistent characters and running gags—established conventions that would define comic books and graphic narratives for decades.