The Newlyweds

McManus's *The Newlyweds* depicts a young married couple navigating domestic life with their small child. This Sunday strip exemplifies the visual vocabulary that newspaper comics established in the early 1900s: multiple rectangular panels arranged in sequence, speech balloons for dialogue, and recurring characters whose relationships develop across episodes. The strip's humor derives from situation comedy—marital disagreements, parenting mishaps, and the small frustrations of household routine. By serializing character-driven narratives in daily and Sunday papers, strips like this one trained readers in sequential visual storytelling and established conventions that would structure comic books for decades to come.