Bringing Up Father — buf411130

George McManus launched Bringing Up Father for King Features Syndicate in 1913, and by 1941 it was one of the most widely reprinted strips on earth. These Sunday pages follow Jiggs — the Irish-American bricklayer turned millionaire — and his imperious wife Maggie through a cascade of domestic misadventures: mistaken phone calls, a town dogcatcher in comic disarray, rocking-chair cat chaos, a bicycle borrowed under false pretenses. McManus's ligne claire draftsmanship, decorative Art Nouveau borders, and perfectly timed panel rhythm demonstrate the visual grammar newspaper strips invented — recurring characters, sequential gags, speech balloons integrating text and image — the same grammar that would migrate directly into the first comic books of the late 1930s.