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Home Wanted by a Baby!

· February 10, 1913

Home Wanted by a Baby!
A six-panel Sunday strip following a baby's chaotic search for a home. The infant protagonist moves from house to house, leaving mayhem in its wake—overturned furniture, broken objects, and frantic adults fleeing the destruction. Each panel advances the narrative through sight gags and physical comedy. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions that define early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring character driving the plot, and escalating visual gags. The dense cross-hatching and caricatured figures reflect the illustration style of 1910s Sunday pages, when newspaper comics were establishing themselves as a distinct medium drawing readers through humor and character continuity rather than moral instruction.

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