Home Wanted by a Baby!

By Clare Victor Dwiggins, this Sunday strip follows a baby's chaotic search for domestic placement. Across six panels, the infant wreaks havoc in each prospective home—overturning baskets, breaking furniture, and terrorizing inhabitants—before being summarily rejected. Dwiggins employs the conventions of early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated physical comedy, and a recurring character whose misadventures drive the narrative. The strip exemplifies how Sunday pages of this era built humor from slapstick and property destruction, establishing visual storytelling techniques that became foundational to comic art. Dwiggins was among the cartoonists who transformed the newspaper page into a space for dynamic sequential imagery.