Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a single narrative across multiple panels: a couple's attempt to find housing while caring for an infant. The strip uses the visual vocabulary now standard to comics—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—to develop a coherent story from left to right. Dwiggins employs exaggerated facial expressions and body language to convey comedy through situation and reaction. The strip represents the newspaper comic as it emerged in the early twentieth century: a medium that combined panel layout with character continuity to tell stories serialized across the Sunday page, establishing conventions that would define comics for generations.