Bringing Up Father — Omaha Sunday Bee, May 24, 1914

George McManus's Bringing Up Father runs here across six panels: Jiggs, the newly rich Irish-American bricklayer, and his socially ambitious wife Maggie navigate a grand columned building — likely a museum or mansion — as Jiggs eyes an escape and Maggie presses forward in her finery. McManus draws with fluid Art Nouveau line work, ornate architectural backgrounds, and expressive physical comedy; speech balloons anchor the timing. Launched in 1913 for the Hearst syndicate, the strip joined Mutt and Jeff, Krazy Kat, and Little Nemo in forging the Sunday broadsheet page into sequential visual storytelling — the direct ancestor of the comic book. These syndicated Sunday pages, reproduced across hundreds of papers simultaneously, established recurring characters, panel grids, and the grammar of comics as a mass medium.