Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel fishing comedy featuring the irascible Everett True, whose hair-trigger temper drives the humor. In the first panel, a companion advises using minnows as bait; in the second, True's violent reaction—jerking his line from the water in fury—nearly hooks his friend instead of a fish. The strip showcases the visual vocabulary emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, exaggerated character expressions, and action lines conveying motion and emotion. Everett True strips appeared in newspapers nationwide from the early 1900s onward, establishing the cantankerous protagonist as a recurring character whose outbursts provided readers daily doses of slapstick humor grounded in recognizable situations.