The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through slapstick humor and visual gags. In this Sunday strip, a burglar interrupts the household, leading to physical comedy across multiple panels. McManus employs the formal vocabulary of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with consistent viewpoint, speech balloons advancing plot and character, and recurring domestic setting. The strip's success in newspapers established McManus as a major cartoonist and demonstrated how serialized characters could sustain reader interest across multiple installments. *The Newlyweds* proved that humor rooted in recognizable social situations—marriage, home, everyday mishaps—could anchor a comic strip's appeal, influencing the domestic comedy strips that proliferated throughout the twentieth century.