Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring Everett True, an irascible character who responds to minor social infractions with exaggerated outrage. In the top panel, True confronts a visitor checking the time at his door; in the bottom, he violently ejects the guest for the late-hour transgression. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring protagonist, sequential narrative panels, speech balloons advancing the joke, and ink-hatching for dimension. True strips were mainstays of the Sunday and daily pages, establishing archetypal humor—the curmudgeon protagonist whose reactions wildly exceed provocation. This visual format, popularized by cartoonists in the 1900s, directly influenced the development of modern comic books.