Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday comic strip follows a infant's misadventures as it wreaks havoc through a household. The six-panel layout tracks the baby's chaos across domestic spaces—knocking over baskets, creating messes, and confounding adult residents. Clare Victor Dwiggins employs sequential visual storytelling with speech balloons and expressive line work to guide readers through escalating comedic situations. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on physical gags and recurring characters. By the 1910s, the Sunday pages had become a laboratory for visual narrative, where artists refined the formal grammar—panel borders, word-image integration, temporal progression—that would define the medium. Such strips populated American newspapers and established the visual vocabulary foundational to comic books.