Bringing Up Father — buf370625

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-immigrant-made-good, celebrating his son's entry into the family business: now he can finally loaf at the office. He orders a lounge for his anteroom, asks his clerk whether it has arrived — and the final panel reveals his son already sprawled on it, snoring, dog growling at his feet, a portrait of a glamorous woman on the wall. McManus draws in a fluid, art-deco line — ornate wallpaper, expressive silhouettes, Zs floating like smoke. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913, was among the longest-running American comic strips, its domestic class-warfare gag refined over decades into a nearly wordless visual rhythm that directly shaped the page grammar early comic books inherited.