The Newlyweds by George McManus

McManus's domestic comedy follows a young married couple navigating household mishaps and marital misunderstandings. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive line work, and sight gags built on physical comedy. The husband's exasperation and the wife's innocent chaos drive the humor across six panels arranged in two rows. Alongside *Dad in Kidland* and *Willie Fibb*, this page exemplifies how Sunday comics of the 1910s featured multiple strips sharing the page, establishing recurring characters and situations that readers followed daily. These newspaper strips—not books—were where the visual language of comics was invented: panel borders, word balloons, and character continuity became the grammar that all subsequent comic art would build upon.