Home Wanted by a Baby

This Sunday strip follows a determined infant's campaign to find suitable lodgings, moving through a sequence of domestic disasters. Each panel escalates the chaos: the baby disrupts a household, transforms furnishings, and ultimately proves too demanding for prospective homes. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics—sequential panels with speech balloons, a recurring character driving the narrative, and sight gags that build across frames. Published during the formative years of the Sunday funny pages, the strip showcases how artists developed the visual language that would define the medium: clear panel progression, expressive cartooning, and humor derived from character action rather than text alone.