Bringing Up Father — buf370317

George McManus's Bringing Up Father ran continuously from 1913 to 2000, making it one of the longest-lived strips in American newspaper history. This daily follows Jiggs — the checked-vest, top-hatted Irish-American social climber — and his imperious wife Maggie. Here, four panels trace a comic detour: Maggie plans a proper London itinerary (Tower, Westminster Abbey), while Jiggs spots a man he knows from the old neighborhood and ducks into an 'OWL LUNC[H]' counter for tea and an English crumpet, cheerfully ditching culture for craic. McManus's draftsmanship — precise cross-hatching, Art Deco interior flourishes, expressive silhouette figures — exemplifies the refined graphic language newspaper dailies handed wholesale to the first comic books of the late 1930s.