Home Wanted by a Baby!

This Sunday strip by Clare Victor Dwiggins follows a baby's misadventures as it seeks shelter and care. Across five panels, the infant encounters a series of obstacles and unsympathetic characters—from a landlady to a cook—each refusing to help, until finding refuge in a home. Dwiggins employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons advancing narrative, and a recurring central character whose predicaments drive comedy. The strip appeared in the Sunday color pages of American newspapers, part of the medium that directly preceded and shaped the comic book format. Dwiggins's work exemplifies how daily and Sunday strips established the fundamental grammar of comics—panel layout, lettering, and character consistency—that later publications would inherit and codify.