Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip featuring the irascible Everett True examining a waterlogged lot for sale. In the first panel, a cheerful salesman explains away obvious flood damage; in the second, True's volcanic response involves dunking the salesman in the muddy water. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual economy: simple line work, sequential panels showing cause and effect, and exaggerated character expressions. Everett True strips, syndicated nationally, helped establish the comic strip as a vehicle for social humor and physical comedy, influencing the visual language that would define twentieth-century comics.