Outbursts of Everett True

This two-panel strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor through physical comedy and rapid scene shifts. The top panel establishes a social scenario—gentlemen greeting a woman with exaggerated politeness about the morning air. The second panel delivers the punchline through slapstick reversal: the protagonist's violent reaction to pests. The strip employs essential comic grammar: panel sequence, speech balloons, and a recurring character whose predictable behavior generates humor through incongruity. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran in newspapers nationwide and helped establish the daily strip format that bridged nineteenth-century illustrated humor and modern comic books. The artist's economical pen work and clear staging made complex action instantly readable at small newspaper scale.