The Newlyweds — Snookums Plays a Little Joke on Papa and Mamma

This Sunday comic page features *The Newlyweds*, a domestic comedy strip centered on a young married couple and their mischievous baby, Snookums. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive figure drawing, and sight gags built across multiple frames. The narrative follows Snookums' antics as he tricks his parents, demonstrating the strip's formula of physical comedy and domestic mishap. Published on the color Sunday pages of major newspapers, *The Newlyweds* exemplified how comic strips functioned as serialized entertainment that kept readers returning daily. These strips, distributed through syndication networks, became the direct precursor to the comic book format that would emerge in the 1930s.