Outbursts of Everett True

This daily strip presents a two-panel gag centered on Everett True, an irritable character prone to explosive reactions to social rudeness. In the top panel, True sits at a restaurant table with two companions; the middle figure has attempted to use an under-the-table telegraph system to contact the waiter. The bottom panel shows True's violent response—kicking the offender into a chaotic tangle of food and broken furniture. The strip demonstrates the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons conveying dialogue, and exaggerated action conveying comic emotion. True's character type—the choleric everyman responding to everyday affronts—became a popular formula in Sunday and daily strips, establishing recurring protagonists as a cornerstone of comic strip storytelling.