Bringing Up Father — buf371116

Four panels track a domestic standoff: Maggie announces she'll broadcast from the Women's Club over the radio and leaves it on for Jiggs, who grumbles he could hear her fine without it. Two hours later, a radio announcer introduces "Mrs. Jiggs" — and her voice barks "Aw, shut up" before Jiggs can switch it off. Last panel, Jiggs sits alone, conceding the radio is "the marvel of the age." McManus's draftsmanship is confident and economical — rounded figures, bold ink outlines, sparse backgrounds that focus every sight gag. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913, was among the first strips to build its humor entirely on recurring domestic characters, helping establish the grammar of serialized newspaper comics that directly seeded the comic-book format: sequential panels, integrated speech balloons, sustained personality across daily installments.