The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple through domestic mishaps, here navigating rain and an umbrella in escalating comic chaos. McManus employs the formal vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and physical slapstick gags that build across frames. The strip's Sunday format allowed larger illustrations and more elaborate visual storytelling than daily strips. *The Newlyweds* became one of the foundational strips of the 1910s, establishing the sitcom-like domestic comedy that would influence American comics for decades. McManus's precise draftsmanship and panel composition helped establish visual conventions still used in cartooning today.