The Newlyweds

*The Newlyweds* by George McManus follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through domestic comedy. This Sunday page strips shows the husband consulting a doctor about his wife's snoring, then attempting various remedies—from medicine to mechanical devices—with predictable failure. McManus employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and a recurring cast. The strip's humor derives from physical gags and marital miscommunication. Published in the Sunday pages of major newspapers, *The Newlyweds* typified the comic strip's rapid evolution from simple joke sequences into serialized domestic narratives. McManus's clean linework and clear panel progression influenced the visual language adopted by comics artists throughout the twentieth century.