Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring Everett True, an irascible character who explodes at social rudeness. In the top panel, True interrogates a fisherman about his catch while a man uses a telephone nearby; the bottom panel shows True's violent reaction to the telephone user's intrusion on the conversation. The strip employs sequential narrative with speech balloons and exaggerated cartooning—visual conventions that newspapers were standardizing in the early 1900s. Everett True strips, which appeared in newspapers nationwide, helped establish the daily comic as a vehicle for satire and physical comedy, influencing the developing language of sequential art.