Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday strip follows a foundling infant through a chaotic household search for adoption. The narrative unfolds across six panels in traditional newspaper comic format, using speech balloons and sequential action to advance the plot. A woman discovers the baby, attempts to place it with various families, and encounters escalating domestic mayhem—overturned baskets, scattered belongings, exasperated householders. Dwiggins employs visual repetition and physical comedy to sustain the gag across panels. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' hybrid form: serialized narrative with recurring characters appearing in dailies and Sundays, panel-based layout with integrated text, and the visual grammar—speech balloons, action lines, expressions—that became foundational to comic book storytelling conventions.