Outbursts of Everett True

This Sunday strip follows Everett True, an irascible character who erupts at social pretense and old-fashioned behavior. In the top panel, True scolds companions for reminiscing about 19th-century players; below, he explodes at two "fossils" clinging to 1776 nostalgia during a 1906 baseball game. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: multiple panels advancing a gag, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and exaggerated expressions conveying emotion. Everett True's weekly tantrums made him a fixture of the Sunday funnies, part of the expanding universe of recurring characters that gave newspaper comics their commercial power and helped establish the medium's visual language.