Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the irascible Everett True, whose comic appeal lay in his volatile reactions to minor social annoyances. In the top panel, True requests a light from a well-dressed clown; the second panel shows his explosive response when denied. The strip's visual economy—sequential panels, speech balloons, exaggerated character expressions—exemplifies the newspaper comic form that emerged in the early 1900s. True's outbursts over trivial provocations became his trademark, making the character a popular fixture of Sunday comics pages. The strip represents the era when newspaper comics evolved from single gags into recurring character vehicles, establishing conventions that would define the medium.