The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple through domestic mishaps rendered in six sequential panels. Here, a flooded bathroom becomes the source of escalating chaos—water spreads across the floor as the husband and wife react with alarm, culminating in a neighbor's astonished arrival. McManus employs the visual vocabulary becoming standard in newspaper comics: consistent panel layout, expressive line work, speech balloons anchored to speakers, and a narrative arc built from individual frames. By 1912, such Sunday supplement strips had evolved into the dominant form of sequential storytelling in American newspapers, establishing the visual grammar that would define comic books for generations.