The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple through domestic mishaps and misunderstandings. Here, a series of encounters—a doctor's visit, a slip on ice, encounters with neighbors, and a sick child—unfold across six panels. McManus employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated body language, and running gags centered on household chaos. The strip's humor derives from physical comedy and situational irony, hallmarks of the Sunday page tradition. *The Newlyweds* exemplifies how newspaper strips between 1900 and 1920 established the language of comics—panel borders, thought bubbles, and character continuity—that would form the basis of the modern comic book industry.