The Newlyweds by George McManus

George McManus's *The Newlyweds* depicts a young married couple navigating domestic mishaps through slapstick comedy. Here, a series of six panels shows the husband and wife in a home setting—the wife stumbling, the husband observing—with speech balloons advancing a simple gag across the sequence. McManus employs the visual grammar that defined early newspaper comics: bordered panels, repeated characters, sequential action, and dialogue. The Sunday page layout, featuring *The Newlyweds* alongside *Splinters* and *Makin' B'lieve*, was typical of the era when newspapers competed for readers through comic supplements. These strips, published daily and weekly, established the formal and narrative conventions that would become foundational to the comic book industry.