Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday comic strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a chaotic infant through multiple domestic scenarios, each panel advancing the gag through sequential action. The strip demonstrates core visual storytelling techniques—varied panel sizes, motion lines, speech balloons, and sight gags—that newspaper comics used to sustain reader interest across the full page. By 1913, the Sunday funnies had become a major circulation draw for newspapers, with artists developing the formal language later adopted by comic books: recurring characters, standardized panel borders, and escalating comedic violence. Dwiggins's energetic line work and busy compositions typify the era's slapstick humor and rapid-fire pacing.