Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip depicting its titular character, an irritable man in bowler hat and dark coat, demonstrating his volatile nature. In the top panel, seated on a streetcar, Everett boasts of his whistling prowess to a fellow passenger. The lower panel shows the consequence: his enthusiastic but terrible piping sends the car's occupants into chaos—covering their ears, grimacing, fleeing. The strip employs the visual conventions now standard to comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, exaggerated expressions, and a setup-punchline structure. Born from the newspaper Sunday pages, such strips established the visual grammar that would define the medium, with recurring characters whose behavior readers anticipated and enjoyed.