Home Wanted by a Baby!

By Clare Victor Dwiggins, this Sunday strip follows a harried woman managing an infant across multiple panels. The narrative unfolds left to right through sequential scenes—a familiar domestic chaos punctuated by speech balloons and physical comedy. Dwiggins employs the visual language that newspaper cartoonists had standardized by 1913: distinct panel borders, expressive line work, and recurring characters in escalating situations. The strip exemplifies how Sunday funny pages functioned as serialized humor strips with recurring cast members, distinct from single-gag cartoons. These dailies and Sundays formed the direct precursor to the comic book medium, establishing the panel-based storytelling, character continuity, and visual-verbal integration that would define comics for decades.