The Newlyweds—Their Baby

George McManus's *Newlyweds* strip follows a young married couple and their infant through domestic comedy. This Sunday page demonstrates the visual grammar that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags built from everyday situations. The strip's domestic focus and visual clarity made it popular across the country. McManus's clean linework and panel layouts influenced countless cartoonists working in the dailies and Sunday supplements where American comic art was born—decades before comic books collected these newspaper strips into bound form.