Bringing Up Father — buf370415

Four panels set on a ship's deck: Jiggs spots a man he intends to avoid, the stranger wonders what Jiggs's passport photo looks like, a cluster of admiring women surround the stranger as he gallantly offers to walk them around the deck, and finally Jiggs — watching from a distance — concedes the fellow isn't so bad after all. McManus draws with confident Art Deco linework: bold hatching on Jiggs's checked suit, fluid crowd groupings, and expressive silhouette. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913, was among the longest-running and most widely syndicated strips in American newspaper history. George McManus refined the speech-balloon choreography and recurring-character continuity that daily strips exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.