Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's chaotic search for a home, moving through a series of domestic scenes. Each panel builds the visual comedy through sequential action: the infant disrupts a music lesson, crashes a formal dinner, destroys a parlor, and leaves destruction in its wake. The strip employs the fundamental grammar of newspaper comics—panel borders, speech balloons, recurring character, and escalating physical gags—that emerged in the 1890s Sunday pages. Dwiggins' expressive line work and exaggerated poses capture slapstick humor without dialogue, making the narrative instantly readable. Such strips, appearing weekly in newspapers nationwide, established the visual and narrative conventions that would define comic books for generations.