The Newly Weds: Baby Goes Visiting

This Sunday comic strip exemplifies the domestic humor that dominated early newspaper comics. The strip follows a young couple and their infant through a social visit, building gags around the baby's disruptions and the parents' embarrassment. The artist employs sequential panels with speech balloons to advance narrative and develop character reactions across six frames. *The Newly Weds* typifies the newspaper Sunday page format that emerged in the 1890s, establishing visual conventions—panel borders, dialogue placement, exaggerated expressions—that would become foundational to comic book language. Recurring characters in domestic settings offered readers daily serialized comedy that required no special knowledge, making comics accessible to mass audiences.