Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the volatile protagonist Everett True and his hapless traveling companion. The top panel establishes a scene at a hotel or inn; the bottom panel delivers the punchline as True, exasperated by a broken trunk, threatens to "try a little smashing" on himself. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring characters, sight gags dependent on physical comedy, speech balloons advancing the narrative, and sequential panel progression. *Outbursts of Everett True* was among the daily strips that shaped American cartooning in the early twentieth century, demonstrating how newspapers serialized humor through recognizable characters and established the visual shorthand—expressions, action lines, typography—that became the grammar of the comic strip form.