The Newly Weds: Baby Gets a New Tooth

This Sunday comic strip follows a young couple through the night as their baby cuts its first tooth, from dinner at 5 p.m. through the frantic hours past midnight. The sequence uses regular panel divisions, speech balloons, and sequential action to build comic effect—visual techniques that became standard in comics. Newspaper strips of this era established the fundamental vocabulary of the medium: recurring domestic characters, visual gags playing on everyday situations, and timing conveyed through panel progression. The strip's humor derives from the parents' escalating exhaustion and the disruption of a seemingly simple household event, making domestic life itself the subject of comedic observation.