Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the recurring character Everett True, whose name describes his personality. In the top panel, an insurance salesman interrupts True's domestic moment; in the bottom, True's violent reaction sends the man flying through a window. The strip's humor relies on True's hair-trigger temper and exaggerated physical comedy. Created during the newspaper comic strip era that established sequential visual storytelling conventions—panels, speech balloons, and character consistency—this daily comic helped shape the visual grammar that would define comic books. True's predictable outbursts made him a popular recurring character in early-twentieth-century papers.