Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday comic strip follows a scraggly infant as it disrupts the lives of a succession of adults. The strip's narrative unfolds across six panels, each depicting a new scene as the baby moves from one character to another, leaving chaos in its wake. Dwiggins employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: distinct panel borders, speech balloons, and a protagonist whose misadventures drive the plot forward. The exaggerated linework and caricatured expressions were hallmarks of the era's comic strips, which appeared in Sunday supplements and dailies across America and shaped the visual language that would become fundamental to comic books. The strip's humor derives from physical comedy and situational gags rather than dialogue, a technique common to the period's sequential art.