The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic mishaps with physical comedy and visual wordplay. Rain, umbrellas, and domestic squabbles drive the gags across six panels of escalating chaos. McManus employs the visual vocabulary that became standard in comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated poses, and visual punchlines. Published on Sunday newspaper pages alongside *Dad in Kidland* and *Pip Gint*, these strips reached millions of readers. Newspaper comics of this era established the narrative structures and drawing conventions that shaped all comics to follow. McManus's later work would develop into sophisticated satire, but here the humor remains slapstick and domestic—the everyday collisions of married life translated into sequential art.