Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday strip follows a foundling baby through a series of domestic mishaps. Panels progress left to right across a chaotic household: the infant causes havoc in the kitchen, tangles with laundry, upends furniture, and generally overwhelms its caretakers. The strip employs the visual conventions established by early newspaper comics—sequential panels, dialogue balloons, and a recurring character navigating escalating gags. Dwiggins's loose, energetic linework captures slapstick action typical of the 1910s funny pages, when newspaper Sunday comics served as the primary source of sequential narrative art and helped establish the visual grammar later adopted by the comic book industry.