From the exhibition
Outbursts of Everett True
· 1905

A Sunday strip featuring the irascible Everett True and his family at the dinner table. The top panel shows True's wife commenting on their turkey; the bottom panel depicts True's explosive reaction—he literally bursts through the room, scattering furniture and family members in violent motion. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: multiple panels showing sequential action, speech balloons, and exaggerated physical comedy rendered through dynamic line work. Created during the foundational era of the Sunday funnies, when artists were developing the visual grammar—panel layouts, motion lines, facial expressions—that would define the medium for decades.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain