Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday strip follows a resourceful infant navigating domestic chaos. Across six panels, the baby commandeers household objects—baskets, furniture, kitchen implements—to construct shelter and manage a series of predicaments. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' physical comedy and sequential narrative structure. Dwiggins employs dense cross-hatching and expressive linework typical of the era's Sunday pages, while speech balloons and sequential panels guide readers through the baby's determined improvisation. This strip appeared during the formative years when newspaper comics established the visual language and panel conventions that would become foundational to the medium.