The Newlyweds—Their Baby

George McManus's domestic comedy follows a young couple managing their infant's endless demands—bottles, crying, sleeplessness—across nine panels of escalating domestic chaos. The strip uses the visual grammar now standard to comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, and sight gags that build narrative momentum. The Newlyweds ran in Sunday newspapers nationwide, part of the Sunday supplement boom that established the visual vocabulary inherited by later comic books. McManus's careful panel composition and use of recurring characters in domestic settings helped define how stories could be told through sequential art, establishing templates that would shape American comics for decades.