Bringing Up Father — buf371027

Three panels by George McManus show a radio salesman arriving at the Jiggs residence, getting past a butler who must "wake him up," then buttonholing Jiggs — who declares no one can sell him a radio and that he'll show the salesman how to get rid of them. Panel three, labeled Three Hours Later, reveals Jiggs surrounded by a towering wall of radios, philosophizing that everyone should have a hobby. McManus's line work is clean and confident: top-hatted domestics, expressive reaction takes, cluttered prop comedy. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913, ran for nearly a century and helped establish the recurring-character daily strip as a commercial and narrative form — its speech balloons, sequential panel logic, and consistent cast directly prefigure the comic book anthology format that emerged in the 1930s.