Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday strip follows a young woman's chaotic efforts to secure housing while caring for an infant. Across six panels, domestic mishaps escalate—a collapsing chair, scattered belongings, landlord confrontations—as the protagonist juggles motherhood and practical obstacles. The strip employs the visual conventions standard to early newspaper comics: sequential panels, expressive line work, and dialogue balloons that propel narrative action. Dwiggins uses slapstick humor and physical comedy to mine comedy from ordinary life. This work exemplifies how Sunday newspaper comics of the 1910s functioned as serialized entertainment, establishing recurring characters and situations that drew readers back weekly while pioneering the panel-based visual storytelling that would define the medium.