Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the perpetually irritable Everett True and a hapless traveler. In the first panel, True examines the stranger's heavily labeled suitcase while listening to a tall tale about twenty miles walked from home. The second panel delivers the punchline: True responds by literally pasting labels across the man's own body, suggesting he become a walking advertisement. The strip's visual language—distinct panel borders, speech balloons, and exaggerated character expressions—exemplifies the newspaper comic conventions that emerged in the early 1900s. *Outbursts of Everett True*, which ran in newspapers nationwide, helped establish the daily strip format and recurring character archetypes that became foundational to American comic art.