Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the irascible Everett True confronting a tariff question. In the first panel, True announces his intention to explain the issue to a gentleman; in the second, he has disappeared, leaving only his companion. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor through visual exaggeration, expressive body language, and rapid joke escalation. Ben Barcus's *Outbursts of Everett True* ran in the New York Press and syndicated widely, establishing True as a prototype of the cantankerous everyman character. The strip's reliance on sequential panels with minimal text helped define the visual conventions that would become fundamental to comic strip and comic book language.