The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young couple navigating domestic life and recreational pursuits. Here, a husband attempts sailing while his wife offers encouragement from the dock. The strip employs the visual conventions established in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and physical comedy derived from vaudeville and silent film. McManus's clean line work and composition made the strip a Sunday fixture, helping establish the newspaper comic as a distinct medium. The strip's popularity demonstrated that middle-class domestic scenarios—rather than adventure or fantasy alone—could sustain a long-running narrative strip.