The Newlyweds

This Sunday newspaper comic page features *The Newlyweds*, a domestic comedy strip centered on the daily misadventures of a young married couple. The strip uses sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—visual conventions that became the foundation of comic book storytelling. Published in *The San Francisco Call*, the strip exemplifies how newspapers serialized comic narratives in the early twentieth century, creating a mass audience for sequential art before the first comic books appeared. The humor derives from household situations and marital foibles, topics that resonated with newspaper readers and established domestic comedy as a enduring genre in American comics.