The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple through domestic situations—gift-giving, household management, social visits—rendered in six-panel Sunday format. McManus employs the visual vocabulary developed in early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons advancing a narrative through gesture and dialogue. The strip's humor derives from marital miscommunication and class aspiration. Published in major newspapers including the San Francisco Call, *The Newlyweds* exemplifies how Sunday comics became a staple of American dailies in the early twentieth century, reaching mass audiences and establishing recurring characters as weekly companions.