The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life—here, a disagreement over household finances and the wife's spending habits. The Sunday strip uses the nine-panel grid standard to newspaper comics of the 1910s, with speech balloons advancing both plot and character through visual sequence. McManus employs exaggerated facial expressions and body language typical of the era's cartooning style. The strip's recurring characters and domestic comedy became a template for newspaper comic strips, which emerged as the primary medium for sequential art before the comic book format coalesced in the 1930s. Such strips established the visual vocabulary—panel divisions, word-picture integration, character continuity—that would define comics as an art form.