Home Wanted by a Baby

This Sunday strip follows a resourceful infant through six panels of escalating chaos. A baby in a basket sets off a chain reaction: frantic adults search for a house, documents scatter, a woman's dress catches fire, and the child remains impassive amid the pandemonium. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons and exaggerated body language—visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics. By the 1910s, Sunday pages like this had become essential to American newspapers, driving circulation and establishing the visual language that would anchor comic books. The recurring baby character, stripped to essentials, drives the gag through pure physical comedy and circumstance.