The Newlyweds—Their Baby

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* strips follow a young married couple and their infant through domestic comedy. This Sunday page demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags that build across frames. The baby's mischief—crawling through a mirror, scattering objects, creating chaos—drives the narrative through silent action and minimal dialogue. McManus's clean line work and efficient panel layouts influenced the visual grammar that would define twentieth-century comics. The strip exemplifies how newspaper comics evolved from single-panel gags into serialized narratives, establishing templates for character-driven humor that newspapers would syndicate nationally.