Bringing Up Father — buf400107

George McManus launched Bringing Up Father in 1913, and it ran for decades as one of King Features' most widely syndicated properties. This color Sunday page follows the perennial gag engine: Jiggs, the nouveau-riche Irish-American bricklayer, wants to slip away to Dinty Moore's saloon and corned beef; his socially ambitious wife Maggie wants respectability. Here the strip follows the family to New York — Manhattan skyline panels, a Brooklyn cameo, a crowd of neighbors shouting 'Hya-Jiggs,' and Maggie steering everyone toward Park Avenue while Jiggs eyes a cab out of the neighborhood. McManus's ligne claire linework, rounded figures, and architectural backgrounds show the Sunday page at full maturity: a multi-tier grid, integrated speech balloons, and slapstick timing that directly shaped the visual grammar every later cartoonist inherited.