Outbursts of Everett True

A daily strip featuring Everett True, an irritable gentleman prone to volcanic reactions to social annoyances. In this two-panel sequence, True responds to a casual question about "the makin's" (cigarette rolling tobacco) with an explosive tirade about a funeral director's presumed insult. The strip employs sequential narrative across panels with dialogue balloons to drive its humor—visual and verbal gags working in tandem. Everett True exemplified the early newspaper comic strip format that emerged in the 1890s-1900s, establishing conventions of recurring characters, exaggerated expressions, and escalating comedic situations that became foundational to comic book language.