Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's chaotic search for domestic shelter, moving rapidly through multiple scenes across the page. The narrative unfolds through sequential panels with speech balloons and sight gags: a mother and child in crisis, rejected landlords, a climactic tumble down stairs, and eventual refuge in a kitchen. Dwiggins employs the visual conventions developing in early newspaper comics—varied panel sizes, dynamic action poses, and crowded compositions that emphasize slapstick movement. The strip exemplifies how Sunday pages of this era served as laboratories for sequential storytelling, establishing recurring character types and comedic timing through drawn sequence rather than text alone. Such strips formed the immediate ancestors of the comic book format.