Bringing Up Father — buf370903

Four panels follow Jiggs, the Irish-American social climber in top hat and tails, as he quietly borrows the household movie camera for a trip to the office—only to be caught red-handed by his formidable wife Maggie, who commandeers it for a lawn party. A phone call from their daughter seals the deal. George McManus launched Bringing Up Father in 1913, running it for over four decades; his clean, art-deco line work, architecturally precise interiors, and rhythmic panel-to-panel staging helped standardize the visual grammar that early comic-book anthologists would directly reprint and adapt. The strip's recurring domestic power struggle was itself the joke, recycled and refined across thousands of dailies.