Bringing Up Father — buf370329

Four panels track a domestic skirmish between Jiggs and Maggie, McManus's long-running social-climbing couple. Jiggs announces he has bought himself a new grip for travel; Maggie counters that she took every bag and trunk for her own use and the grip is perfect for her makeup and perfumes. Shamed as selfish, Jiggs surrenders the bag — then quietly instructs the butler James to find cigar boxes for his packing. McManus's draftsmanship is distinctive: art-nouveau curves, crosshatched waistcoats, crown-wearing Maggie rendered in fluid ink line. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913, was among the first strips to anchor recurring characters in serialized domestic comedy, and its syndication across hundreds of papers helped establish the daily comic strip as a mass narrative form — the direct ancestor of the collected comic book.