Home Wanted by a Baby!

A Sunday comic strip following a baby's search for adoption through a series of misadventures. Each panel shows the infant encountering prospective families—a woman finds it in a basket, attempts at placement fail comedically, and chaos ensues across domestic settings. The strip employs the formal visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: panel borders, speech balloons, and sequential narrative. Created by Clare Victor Dwiggins, the strip demonstrates how Sunday pages developed as extended narratives distinct from single-panel gags. The recurring baby character, placed in varied situations, builds humor through situation and character interaction rather than wordplay alone. This work exemplifies how newspaper comics of the 1910s established the visual grammar—layout, pacing, character continuity—that would define the medium's evolution into comic books.