Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip depicting Everett True, the comic's volatile protagonist, encountering a horse-drawn fire engine on a city street. In the first panel, True greets a man arriving from the provinces; in the second, True explodes in fury at the newcomer's astonishment, calling him and his companions "rubes." The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring character, sequential narrative across panels, dialogue balloons, and physical comedy built on exaggeration. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran in the Sunday pages and dailies, part of the foundational newspaper strips that established visual storytelling techniques later adopted by comic books. The angular line work and ink-heavy blacks are characteristic of the period's newspaper printing methods.