Bringing Up Father — buf400706

George McManus's long-running daily strip follows the nouveau-riche Jiggs navigating domestic chaos — here, a luggage-sorting farce at what appears to be a train station or dock. A porter and several characters argue over a mountain of hat-boxes, trunks, grips, and handbags across four crowded panels; the final panel isolates Jiggs, buried under stacked luggage, asking a bewildered porter to mind it all. McManus's draftsmanship is fluid and precise — rounded figures, confident ink line, cluttered comedy managed through clear sightlines. Launched in 1913, Bringing Up Father ran for decades and helped establish the recurring-character newspaper strip as the direct ancestor of the comic book, its panel grammar and speech-balloon conventions becoming the medium's shared vocabulary.