The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* exemplifies the domestic comedy strips that dominated early newspaper comics. The strip follows a young married couple through household mishaps, portrayed in six sequential panels that establish visual pacing and recurring gags. McManus employs clear panel divisions, speech balloons, and exaggerated body language to convey humor—here, the wife's management of her husband and child through everyday situations. The strip's style reflects the visual vocabulary being standardized across newspaper funny pages: discrete scenes, sequential storytelling, and character consistency. Such domestic strips competed alongside adventure serials, establishing the newspaper comic page as a laboratory for narrative techniques that would shape comic book language for decades.