Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's mishaps as it wreaks havoc through a household. The narrative unfolds across seven panels, each containing dialogue and action that advance the gag: the infant topples from furniture, scatters belongings, and provokes exasperated reactions from its caretaker. Dwiggins employs the vocabulary of early newspaper comics—speech balloons, sequential panel layout, and expressive linework—to depict physical comedy. The recurring character and domestic setting were hallmarks of Sunday funnies that appeared in newspapers nationwide. These strips, distributed by syndicates, formed the foundation of comic art before the collected comic book emerged in the 1930s, establishing visual storytelling conventions that would define the medium.