Home Wanted by a Baby!

By Clare Victor Dwiggins, this Sunday strip follows a young woman's frantic attempts to find suitable housing while caring for an infant. The narrative unfolds across six panels in a grid layout, using sequential art to build comedic momentum: each panel advances the plot as the protagonist moves through different rooms and scenarios, her exasperation mounting. Dwiggins employs standardized visual conventions—speech balloons, panel borders, and expressive character poses—that had become the visual language of newspaper comics by the 1910s. The strip exemplifies how Sunday pages functioned as self-contained narratives, distinct from their daily counterparts, offering readers a brief narrative arc within a single installment. This format emerged from the competitive Sunday newspaper market where comics became a major circulation driver.