The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* ran across America's newspaper Sunday pages in the early 1900s, following a young married couple through domestic mishaps and marital comedy. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that became standard in comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters in consistent settings, and sight gags built through panel-to-panel progression. McManus's precise linework and clean layouts made the strip accessible and widely syndicated. Published alongside *Splinters* and *Dad in Kidland*, *The Newlyweds* exemplifies how newspaper comics of this era established the narrative and formal conventions that would define the medium for decades.