From the exhibition
Home Wanted by a Baby!
· March 19, 1913

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's search for a home, moving through five sequential panels that establish character and narrative momentum. Each panel contains a distinct scene—from a woman rejecting the infant to various interactions with potential caretakers—connected by speech balloons and visual continuity. The strip exemplifies the newspaper comic's emerging visual language: bordered panels, expressive cartooning, and recurring characters that drive episodic humor. Dwiggins employs exaggerated proportions and gestural drawing typical of early twentieth-century comic art. Such strips populated Sunday newspaper supplements, establishing the foundational storytelling devices—panel progression, dialogue integration, character development—that would define the comic book medium when reprinted in collected form.
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