Outbursts of Everett True

A Sunday strip featuring the irascible Everett True, whose explosive reactions to everyday annoyances drove this popular series. Here, True erupts at a self-important man lecturing about economic theory, telling him to abandon his abstract ideas and focus on real news. The strip's visual vocabulary—multiple panels, speech balloons, exaggerated expressions—reflects the newspaper comics format that was establishing the visual grammar later adopted by comic books. Artist James Swinnerton and his contemporaries in the Sunday supplements pioneered the sequential art techniques that would define the medium for decades to come.