Home Wanted by a Baby

This Sunday strip follows a baby's attempts to find a home, moving through six panels with escalating physical comedy. A mother proudly shows off her new infant; the baby then commandeers a captain's uniform and marches through town causing chaos—packing up furniture, roughing up residents, and creating mayhem at every turn. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and a recurring character in absurd situations. Published in the era when Sunday funnies were establishing the visual language later adopted by comic books, this strip exemplifies how artists used panel progression and slapstick gags to tell stories across multiple frames.