Bringing Up Father — buf370508

Four horizontal panels follow Jiggs and Maggie's London coronation adventure. Maggie demands the best seats to see the coronation procession; Jiggs visits a ticket tout at a lamppost; the scalper declares these are the last available tickets; then a spiky-haired local cheerfully informs them the seats are useless — the crowd is enormous and they're not even in London. George McManus drew Bringing Up Father from 1913 until his death in 1954, refining a clean ligne-claire style with expressive silhouettes and precise crosshatching. The strip's recurring domestic comedy — nouveau-riche Irish immigrants, social ambition colliding with pratfall — ran in hundreds of papers worldwide and directly shaped what early comic-book reprint anthologies collected, making McManus a foundational figure in the medium's visual grammar.