Mr. Newlywed Gives Fido Food for Thought

This Sunday strip follows a young married couple and their dog Fido through a brief domestic scene. The husband asks his new wife whether their dog loves its parents; she replies she'll wait until her mother and father return to find out. The sequence then shows Fido barking "da?" and "da!"—mimicking baby speech—while the couple observes. When the husband comments "Good heavens! Baby!" the wife scolds him for giving Fido such "darling" behavior. The strip demonstrates the visual grammar of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring cast, and sight gags built on shared domestic life. Such Sunday pages were foundational to comic strip culture and directly influenced the development of comic books as a medium.