Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a foundling baby's chaotic search for a home. Across six panels, the infant wreaks domestic havoc—toppling furniture, scattering belongings, and terrorizing adults—while speech balloons narrate the escalating disaster. Dwiggins employs the visual language crystallizing in early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing narrative time, exaggerated expressions conveying emotion, and recurring characters (here, desperate adults and one unstoppable baby). The strip's slapstick humor derives from the gap between bourgeois order and anarchic disruption. Sunday pages like this, appearing in major newspapers nationwide, established the formal and comedic conventions that would define the emerging comic-book medium.