The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young couple navigating domestic life through visual comedy and domestic mishaps. The strip employs the formal panel structure and speech balloons that were becoming standard in newspaper comics, with recurring characters experiencing escalating household chaos. McManus uses exaggerated physical comedy and situational humor across nine panels, establishing visual rhythm through varied panel sizes. The strip exemplifies early-twentieth-century newspaper comics that entertained mass audiences in Sunday editions. *The Newlyweds* helped define the domestic comedy genre and demonstrated how serialized characters could sustain reader interest, establishing patterns later foundational to comic book storytelling.