Wanted: Home by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's desperate search for domestic placement across six panels. The infant character moves from door to door, encountering various households and their reactions, each panel advancing the narrative through visual gags and speech balloons. Dwiggins employs the sequential storytelling conventions that newspapers had established by the 1910s—repeating characters, panel-to-panel progression, and dialogue-driven humor. The strip exemplifies how comic art had evolved from captioned illustrations into a distinct medium, where composition, gesture, and text work together to create narrative momentum and comedic timing across space rather than time.