The Newlyweds by McManus

McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life—unpacking, cooking, entertaining, and managing household mishaps. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: discrete rectangular panels arranged in rows, speech balloons for dialogue, and recurring characters in sequential narrative. Published on the Sunday comic page alongside *Splinters* (by Steinigans), the strip demonstrates how newspaper comics of the 1910s developed the panel-based grammar that would define the medium. Domestic comedy and marital situations became staple subjects as comics expanded beyond political cartoons and spot illustrations to tell serialized stories in American papers.