Home Wanted by a Baby

This Sunday newspaper comic strip follows a infant's chaotic journey through a sequence of households. Across eight panels, the baby wreaks havoc—destroying clothing, scattering belongings, and disrupting domestic order—while adults react with exasperation and alarm. The strip employs the visual conventions that had crystallized by 1913: distinct panels arranged in sequence, speech balloons conveying dialogue and thought, and a recurring cast navigating escalating situations for comedic effect. The narrative structure—a single character moving through different locations, creating disorder—was typical of the era's newspaper comics, which built humor from physical gags and domestic chaos rather than wordplay.