Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip in which the protagonist Everett True confronts a man about spelling reform. In the first panel, True declares his support for Roosevelt's reformed spelling; in the second, he violently attacks the man with a dictionary when challenged, scattering pages across an office floor. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual conventions: speech balloons, panel divisions, and a recurring character defined by exaggerated physical comedy. These dailies and Sunday pages, which flourished in the early 1900s, established the visual language that would become fundamental to comic books—sequential art using panels, captions, and expressive line work to convey action and humor across narrative sequences.