The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young couple and their baby through domestic mishaps and child-rearing troubles. This Sunday strip demonstrates the visual conventions that shaped early comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in familiar settings, and sight gags built on escalating physical comedy. The strip's focus on household life and marital humor made it popular with newspaper readers. McManus's clean line work and clear panel progression exemplify how newspaper comics developed the visual language—panel borders, word balloons, and sight lines—that became foundational to the medium. Sunday strips like this one ran in color and commanded premium space in papers, making comics a central form of popular entertainment in the early twentieth century.