Home Wanted by a Baby!

Clare Victor Dwiggins's Sunday strip follows a couple navigating domestic chaos after an infant arrives at their door. The narrative unfolds across six panels, each advancing the gag through sight lines and sequential action: the husband's surprise, the wife's frustration, escalating household disorder, and their eventual acceptance. Dwiggins employs the visual conventions developing in early newspaper comics—bordered panels, speech balloons, expressive cartooning—to pace comedy and character reaction. The strip exemplifies how Sunday pages became vehicles for domestic humor targeting middle-class readers, establishing recurring scenarios that would dominate the comics form for decades.