Bringing Up Father — buf370707

Four panels follow Jiggs hatching a scheme: invite the talkative Mrs. Lotta Chatter to visit Maggie so she'll forget her lost dog Fifi. The plan backfires magnificently — a phone call reveals Mrs. Chatter has convinced Maggie the dog was kidnapped, not lost, ending with Jiggs's pained 'OW—' as consequences land. George McManus launched Bringing Up Father in 1913, making it one of the longest-running American daily strips. His clean, art-nouveau-inflected line work — decorative wallpaper, elegantly curved furniture, expressive silhouettes — set a visual standard for domestic comedy strips. McManus's confident panel-to-panel continuity and speech-balloon pacing were foundational conventions that cartoonists and early comic-book artists absorbed wholesale throughout the 1930s.