The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through six-panel Sunday strips. Here, the wife cheerfully tidies toys while her husband worries the house looks chaotic—a gentle domestic clash resolved by bedtime. McManus employs the visual conventions established in early newspaper comics: multiple panels with clear sequential narrative, speech balloons anchoring dialogue, and recurring characters in familiar settings. The strip's humor derives from relatable marital situations rather than slapstick, appealing to the growing middle-class readership of Sunday supplements. *The Newlyweds* exemplifies how newspaper comic strips, born from the 1890s innovations of artists like Richard Outcault, became a mass medium that would directly shape comic book storytelling and visual grammar throughout the twentieth century.