The Newlyweds—Their Baby

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* ran as a Sunday comic strip featuring a young married couple and their infant son. The strip employs the visual language now standard to comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring domestic characters, and sight gags built on family life. Here, the baby's crying disrupts the household, prompting various remedies from concerned relatives. McManus uses expressive linework and clear panel composition to move readers through the narrative. The strip appeared in newspapers nationwide, part of the Sunday comics boom that established recurring characters and serialized humor as commercial entertainment—a format that directly preceded the modern comic book.