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The Newlyweds: Snookums Welcomes the Glad New Year

· December 29, 1912

The Newlyweds: Snookums Welcomes the Glad New Year
This Sunday comic page presents *The Newlyweds*, a domestic comedy strip following a young married couple and their mischievous child Snookums. The three-tier layout uses sequential panels with speech balloons to depict New Year's celebrations and household chaos. Below, two companion strips—*Sandy—He's Game for Anything* and *Makin' B'lieve*—share the page, reflecting the newspaper comic section's format of multiple recurring series. The strip's style typifies early 1910s comics: simple line work, exaggerated expressions, and physical humor. These Sunday pages and their daily counterparts invented the visual vocabulary of comics—panels, balloons, and serialized character development—that would directly influence the comic book medium emerging in the 1930s.

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