The Newlyweds—Their Baby

By George McManus, this Sunday strip follows a young married couple and their infant through domestic scenes of child-rearing chaos. The narrative unfolds across nine panels: guests offer conflicting advice, the baby cries and hiccups, parents quarrel over discipline, and music-making erupts in the home. McManus employs the visual vocabulary becoming standard in newspaper comics—sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and repeated characters. *The Newlyweds* exemplified the humor strips that dominated American Sunday pages in the early twentieth century, building ongoing storylines through recognizable domestic situations rather than one-off gags. The strip's popularity demonstrated that newspaper comics could sustain reader interest through character and continuity, a principle foundational to comic book narrative that followed.