Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the perpetually exasperated Everett True confronting an unstoppable raconteur. The first panel shows the teller launching into an anecdote with theatrical laughter; the second captures True's violent reaction—literally silencing the speaker mid-story. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic structure: recurring character, sequential panels with speech balloons, visual escalation for comic effect. Published in the Sunday pages during comics' foundational era, such strips trained readers in the grammar of panel-to-panel narrative that would define the medium for decades. The character's explosive temperament made True a popular vehicle for physical comedy and social observation in the dailies.