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Home Wanted by a Baby
· August 28, 1913

This Sunday comic strip follows a baby's humorous quest for a home, moving through a series of encounters with animals and adults. The strip demonstrates the visual vocabulary of early newspaper comics: multiple panels arranged in sequence, speech balloons containing dialogue and thought, and recurring infant protagonist. The gags depend on the baby's literal interpretation of adult language and the collision between infant vulnerability and animal behavior. Published during the formative years of the Sunday funnies, when newspaper comics pages were becoming standardized formats, this strip exemplifies how artists of the era used sequential panels, expressive linework, and character development to sustain humor across a full page.
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