Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday comic strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's misadventures through a household disaster. Sequential panels depict the child creating chaos—tipping over a soup pot, scattering contents across the floor, and generally wreaking havoc on domestic order. The strip employs the visual vocabulary now standard to comics: bordered panels advancing narrative time, speech balloons capturing dialogue and reaction, and a recurring character whose actions drive the gag across multiple frames. Dwiggins's fluid linework and exaggerated expressions convey physical comedy typical of early newspaper strips, which served as the direct precursor to the modern comic book format. Such Sunday pages, appearing in papers nationwide, established the grammar of sequential art that would define the medium.