Bringing Up Father — buf400415

Four panels: Maggie rhapsodizes about romantic Tulsa while Jiggs, small and hen-pecked, sits buried in a chair. She asks whether he will love her when she is old and gray; he answers 'I do — Maggie'; she reacts with a baffled 'WHAT?'; in the final panel Jiggs perches alone atop a city derrick at night, muttering that he is beginning to wonder whether it pays to tell the truth. George McManus launched Bringing Up Father in 1913, making it one of the longest-running strips in syndication history. His clean brushwork, decorative interiors, and expressive balloon lettering helped codify the visual conventions — recurring cast, escalating domestic tension, punchline final panel — that newspaper comic pages exported directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.