Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a slapstick narrative across six panels: a woman attempts to find a home while managing a chaotic infant. The strip employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics of the 1910s—sequential panels with speech balloons, dynamic postures conveying physical comedy, and recurring characters bound by domestic circumstance. Dwiggins uses varied panel sizes and compositions to pace the gag, moving from setup through escalating mishaps. The strip exemplifies how Sunday supplements built readership through humor rooted in relatable household situations, establishing the visual and narrative grammar that would define comic strips and, later, comic books as a distinct medium.