Bringing Up Father — buf400621

Four dailies-style panels follow Maggie dispatching someone to call brother Danny and husband Jiggs at the train station — only to learn by telephone that Danny isn't there because the police have jailed him, and that Jiggs is sharing Danny's cell. George McManus draws his signature ink-brush figures with elastic, rubbery faces and crosshatched patterns on Maggie's bold dress; speech balloons carry the whole comic load, no captions needed. Bringing Up Father, launched in 1913, was among the first strips syndicated coast-to-coast, proving that recurring working-class characters — henpecked social climber, iron-willed wife — could sustain a daily visual narrative indefinitely and directly shaped the anthology reprint formats that became the comic book industry.