The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life, their baby, and visits from relatives. This Sunday strip exemplifies the visual vocabulary emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged in a grid, speech balloons containing dialogue and thought, recurring characters, and sight gags built on visual timing. The strip's domestic humor and sentimental focus on family life proved enormously popular, running for decades. McManus's clean linework and spatial composition influenced generations of cartoonists developing the formal language that would define comic strips and, later, comic books themselves.