Outbursts of Everett True

A single-panel comic strip by A. D. Condo, *Outbursts of Everett True* follows its titular character—a bald, rotund man prone to explosive reactions to minor social annoyances. Here, Everett erupts when asked his opinion of a woman's new perfume, launching into a tirade about its barbershop-like smell and suggesting she use carbolic acid instead. The strip's humor derives from the violent disproportion between trivial social courtesy and Everett's volcanic response, delivered in hand-lettered dialogue balloons. Visual gags rely on exaggerated body language and facial expressions. Running in newspapers from 1905 onward, the strip exemplified the comic strips that populated Sunday and daily papers, employing the visual vocabulary—panel borders, speech balloons, recurring characters—that would become foundational to twentieth-century comic art.