Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip featuring Everett True, a short-tempered character who responds to life's minor annoyances with exaggerated violence. In panel one, a shoe salesman suggests a different style; in panel two, True attacks him physically. The strip's humor derives from the disproportion between provocation and reaction. Created during the newspaper comic strip's formative years, *Outbursts* exemplifies the visual conventions—sequential panels, speech balloons, recurring protagonist—that newspapers pioneered before comic books existed. The strip's crude but expressive line work and slapstick timing influenced the medium's developing visual language.