The Newlyweds

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* appeared on newspaper Sunday comic pages in the early 1910s, following the domestic misadventures of a young married couple. The strip employs the visual vocabulary that defined newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, sight gags built through panel progression, and recurring characters in episodic narratives. McManus's clean line work and clear staging made the humor legible across the page. The strip exemplifies how Sunday supplements became laboratories for comic storytelling, where artists refined techniques—panel borders, balloon placement, visual pacing—that would later structure the comic book format emerging in the 1930s.