The Newlyweds by McManus

McManus's The Newlyweds depicts a young married couple navigating domestic life through six narrative panels arranged in two rows. The strip employs sequential art conventions—distinct panels, speech balloons, and consistent character design—to advance a gag about marital adjustment and household management. Published on the Sunday comics page alongside Splinters (a visual gag strip by Steinigans), this strip exemplifies the newspaper comic format that emerged in the early 1900s. Sunday pages like this, distributed nationally, established the visual grammar and recurring-character structure that would become foundational to comic books. The Newlyweds series, which ran in multiple papers, demonstrated how serialized domestic comedy could sustain reader interest week after week.