The Newlyweds—Their Baby

George McManus's *Newlyweds* strip follows a young married couple navigating domestic life with their infant. This Sunday page demonstrates the visual storytelling conventions that shaped early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in familiar settings, and sight gags built from household situations. The strip's episodic structure—each panel a self-contained moment connected by narrative continuity—became standard in newspaper comics. McManus's clean linework and architectural clarity of domestic interiors established a template for domestic humor strips that dominated Sunday pages through the twentieth century. The strip appeared in newspapers nationwide, reaching mass audiences during the formative years when newspaper comics were establishing the visual language later adopted by comic books.