The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young couple and their baby through domestic routines, here with the wife attempting to keep the infant occupied while managing a playful dog. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags built on physical action. McManus uses varied panel sizes and positioning to control pacing, while the couple's expressions carry the humor without captions. Running in Sunday supplements and dailies, *The Newlyweds* exemplified how newspaper comics developed distinct formal techniques separate from magazine illustration—techniques that would become foundational to the comic book form.