The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* follows a young married couple navigating domestic life through physical comedy and visual gags. The strip employs the visual grammar that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and slapstick humor that transcends language. Published on Sunday pages alongside *Splinters* and *Makin' Believe*, these strips appeared in newspapers nationwide, establishing the formal vocabulary and character-driven narratives that would become the foundation of the comic book medium. McManus's work exemplifies how the Sunday funnies functioned as the primary vehicle for comics in the early twentieth century, before comic books as a distinct format emerged.