The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through a six-panel Sunday strip. The narrative tracks their attempts to manage household finances and child-rearing, with gags built on physical comedy and marital misunderstanding. McManus employs the formal grammar of newspaper comics: discrete panels with dialogue balloons, recurring characters in domestic settings, and sight-gags that resolve within the page. The strip exemplifies early-twentieth-century Sunday funnies—serialized humor that appeared in newspapers nationwide. McManus would later create *Bringing Up Father*, but *The Newlyweds* established his reputation for domestic comedy and helped define the visual and narrative conventions that shaped modern comics.