Bringing Up Father — buf371008

Four panels follow Jiggs, the stout, henpecked Irish-American social climber in undershirt and suspenders, and his formidable wife Maggie. She threatens to report him to a 'Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy de Safe' if he withholds money; Jiggs laments missing pal Jerry Dugan's party at Dinty's; a visitor asks Jiggs to look after his wife in exchange for wages — Jiggs obliges cheerfully, hailing a taxi. McManus draws with confident brush linework, expressive rubber-faced figures, and tidy rectangular panels with hand-lettered speech balloons. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913 by George McManus, ran over six decades and circulated to more than 500 newspapers worldwide, making Jiggs and Maggie among the most recognized recurring characters in the early history of the American comic strip.