The Newlyweds by McManus

McManus's *The Newlyweds* depicts a young married couple navigating domestic life through six narrative panels arranged in two rows. The strip employs sequential art conventions—distinct panels, speech balloons, and consistent character design—to advance a gag about marital adjustment and household management. Published on the Sunday comics page alongside *Splinters* (a visual gag strip by Steinigans), this strip exemplifies the newspaper comic format that emerged in the early 1900s. Sunday pages like this, distributed nationally, established the visual grammar and recurring-character structure that would become foundational to comic books. The Newlyweds series, which ran in multiple papers, demonstrated how serialized domestic comedy could sustain reader interest week after week.