Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday comic strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a young woman navigating domestic life with a new infant. The six-panel layout employs sequential storytelling conventions—speech balloons, expressive linework, and sight gags—that defined early newspaper comics. Dwiggins uses crowded domestic scenes and slapstick humor to chronicle the chaos of childcare. Published in the Sunday supplements that became the proving ground for comic art, strips like this established the visual and narrative frameworks that would structure comic books for decades to come.