The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through sight gags and verbal humor. The strip employs sequential panel narrative with speech balloons to chart everyday conflicts—housework, budgeting, in-laws—rendered in McManus's clean linework. Appearing in Sunday newspaper comics sections, such strips were foundational to comics' visual language: recurring characters, panel-to-panel continuity, and dialogue integrated with image. Newspaper comics of this era established the formal vocabulary later adopted by comic books, making Sunday pages like this essential laboratories for the medium's development.