The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life with their infant child. Here, the baby entertains itself with toys and utterances—"da-da"—while parents manage the small chaos of childcare. McManus employs the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, clear sightlines for gags, and a cast of recurring characters. The strip's humor derives from ordinary household moments scaled to visual comedy. *The Newlyweds* ran in Sunday and daily formats, helping establish the newspaper comic strip as a distinct medium distinct from single-panel cartoons. McManus's clean line work and panel discipline influenced generations of cartoonists developing the grammar of sequential art.