Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the irascible Everett True confronting a building janitor. In the first panel, True accosts the superintendent about noise disturbances; in the second, True himself creates a commotion tumbling down the stairs. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor built on sudden reversals and physical comedy. *Outbursts of Everett True*, which ran from 1905 to 1927, helped establish the daily comic strip format. Artist James Swinnerton pioneered clear panel progression and speech balloons to advance narrative and character, visual techniques that became fundamental to comic book design and American sequential art.