Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's journey through multiple households seeking adoption. The narrative unfolds across six panels with clear visual progression: each scene shows the infant passed between prospective parents, their expressions shifting from enthusiasm to exasperation. Dwiggins employs the standard newspaper comic vocabulary—speech balloons, sequential panels, and expressive line work—that characterized early 1900s comic strips. The strip's humor derives from domestic situational comedy and physical gags, common to the Sunday funnies of the era. Recurring characters and episodic narratives like this one established patterns that would define newspaper comics and eventually influence comic book storytelling.