Bringing Up Father — Omaha Daily Bee, September 28, 1913

George McManus's Bringing Up Father runs across the top of this Sunday page in a single wide tier of panels. Jiggs, the newly rich Irish-American laborer, and his socially ambitious wife Maggie move through a domestic squabble involving a town house, a brewery, and a window view — Maggie wielding her authority while Jiggs retreats in hapless confusion. McManus drew with clean, art-nouveau-inflected line work: tall, elegant figures, architectural backgrounds, and speech balloons carrying the entire comedic weight. Launched in 1913, the strip became one of the longest-running in syndication history. Sunday pages like this one — printed in papers coast to coast — were the direct structural ancestors of the comic book: recurring characters, sequential panels, and balloon dialogue assembled into a portable, reproducible narrative form.