Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's frantic journey through domestic chaos. Across six panels, the infant navigates laundry lines, kitchen mishaps, and household disorder while adults react with exasperation and surprise. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and sight gags built on physical comedy. Dwiggins's energetic line work and crowded compositions reflect the Sunday page format's demand for visual abundance. Published in the 1910s, when newspaper comics were establishing themselves as a distinct medium, strips like this one helped codify the grammar of sequential art—the panel-to-panel narrative flow and expressive character design that would become foundational to comics.