Bringing Up Father — October 27, 1925

Four panels track Jiggs's frantic search for his missing wig: he complains from an armchair, spots the wig on a sofa across the room, approaches it with puzzlement, and recoils when it barks — "WOOF! WOOF!" — revealing a small dog hidden beneath it. McManus's line is clean and confident, his interiors furnished with the Art Deco elegance that distinguished *Bringing Up Father* from rougher contemporaries. Launched in 1913, the strip's recurring gag of a nouveau-riche Irish immigrant caught between social ambition and old habits ran in hundreds of papers worldwide, making McManus one of the first cartoonists to prove that a daily comic strip could sustain a fully realized visual world — recurring sets, consistent character design, and economical panel-to-panel storytelling that directly shaped the comic book form that would codify these conventions two decades later.