The Newlyweds by George McManus

McManus's *The Newlyweds* ran as a Sunday newspaper strip featuring a young married couple and their infant son navigating domestic mishaps. The strip's visual language—sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in routine situations—exemplified the formal vocabulary emerging in early twentieth-century comics. McManus deployed slapstick and wordplay across six panels, building gags through physical action and dialogue. The strip's popularity in the Sunday funnies demonstrated the commercial appeal of serialized domestic humor, establishing templates that would shape comic strip conventions for decades. McManus's precise linework and clear panel composition made him influential among cartoonists developing the medium's grammar of visual storytelling.