The San Francisco Call Comic Weekly, June 11, 1911

This Sunday newspaper comic section features two strips: "The Newlyweds" by McManus, depicting domestic comedy through sequential panels of a young couple's household misadventures, and "Splinters" by Steinigans, a visual gag strip following a character's encounters with barrels. The page exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on speech balloons, multi-panel layouts, and recurring characters—visual conventions that defined the emerging medium. By 1911, Sunday comic sections had become standard features in American newspapers, providing both entertainment and circulation boosts. These strips established storytelling techniques that would directly influence the comic books that followed, as publishers later reprinted newspaper strips in bound collections.