The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* strips the domestic scene to its comedic essence: a young husband, wife, and baby navigating household mishaps. The Sunday page combines three episodes—the top strip showing the baby's vocal antics, "Dad in Kidland" depicting slapstick chaos, and "Wurst Upon a Time," a fairy-tale parody. McManus employs the visual vocabulary emerging from newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, sight gags dependent on layout, and recurring characters. The dense compositions and exaggerated expressions typify the Sunday comic page format that helped establish comic art as a mass medium, influencing the structure and humor that would define the comics industry for decades.