The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* exemplifies the visual storytelling that defined early newspaper comics. The strip follows a young married couple through domestic scenes rendered in clean lines and sequential panels—the foundational grammar later adopted by comic books. McManus uses speech balloons, varied panel sizes, and physical comedy to generate humor from everyday situations: household management, marital misunderstandings, interactions with servants and children. The strip appears alongside *Splinters* and *Dad in Kidland* on this Sunday page, reflecting the era when newspapers competed through comic supplements that attracted readers across class lines. McManus's accessible humor and character-driven narratives helped establish the newspaper comic as a distinct medium, influencing the visual vocabulary that comic books would inherit.