Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the irascible Everett True confronting a stranger about an injured arm. True's characteristic explosive reaction—accusations of deception followed by his own admission of carrying the arm in a sling—drives the humor through reversal and exaggeration. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring character, speech balloons, sequential panels, and physical comedy. Ben Batsford's *Everett True* ran in the *New York Tribune* and syndicated papers, establishing the temperamental protagonist as a fixture of the daily comics page and influencing the rapid-fire gag structure that would define comic strip humor for decades.