The Newlyweds by George McMannus

George McMannus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through sight gags and slapstick humor. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to track the couple's misadventures—here, a baby carriage becomes the focal point of escalating physical comedy across nine panels. McMannus uses clear panel borders and varied compositions to guide readers through cause-and-effect storytelling, a visual language that newspaper comics pioneered in the early 1900s. Appearing in Sunday supplements nationwide, strips like this established the vocabulary—recurring characters, recurring situations, visual pacing—that would define twentieth-century comic books and graphic narrative.