Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday strip follows a baby's misadventures as adults attempt to manage its chaos. Across seven panels, the infant wreaks havoc—toppling baskets, escaping pursuits, and creating mayhem that leaves caretakers bewildered. Dwiggins employs sequential visual storytelling with speech balloons, panel borders, and physical comedy to track cause and effect. The recurring baby character, rendered in simplified lines against detailed backgrounds, drives a narrative arc across the page. This strip exemplifies the Sunday newspaper format that emerged in the early 1900s, where artists developed the visual grammar of comics—panel progression, dialogue integration, and character continuity—establishing conventions that became foundational to comic-book design.