Asleep or Awake: The Newly Weds' Baby Is Just Too Cute

This Sunday strip follows a young couple through their first night with a fussy newborn. The husband summons a doctor, who prescribes sleep for the baby—advice the parents struggle to follow as their infant remains awake and colicky through the night. The comic employs the standardized panel grid and speech balloons that had become standard in newspaper comics by the early 1900s. Its humor derives from domestic situations and character reaction rather than slapstick, reflecting the tastes of newspaper readers. The strip appeared in Sunday editions alongside the dailies that constituted the primary format for comic narratives before the emergence of comic books in the 1930s.