The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* depicts a young married couple navigating domestic life through sight gags and physical comedy. The strip's six-panel Sunday layout showcases the visual vocabulary that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons containing dialogue, and recurring characters in daily situations. Published across American newspapers in the early 1900s, such strips established the formal grammar of comic storytelling—the panel-to-panel progression, character consistency, and integration of text and image—that would become foundational to the comic book medium itself. McManus's work exemplifies how the Sunday funny pages served as laboratories for visual narrative experimentation.