Outbursts of Everett True

This daily strip follows Everett True, an irritable protagonist who responds to domestic annoyances with exaggerated violence. Here, True discovers his house has been locked and the gas unlit—a reasonable concern in an era of gas heating. His escalating rage culminates in explosive destruction of the meter itself. The strip employs sequential panels with speech balloons to build comedic tension through True's irrational overreaction. Part of the early newspaper comic strip boom, *Outbursts of Everett True* helped establish visual conventions—panel progression, character consistency, gesture-driven humor—that became foundational to comic art. The strip's appeal lay in its anarchic humor and the appeal of watching social propriety shattered by one man's uncontrolled temperament.