Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip featuring Everett True, a recurring character known for explosive reactions to life's small annoyances. In the first panel, a woman boasts to Mr. True about purchasing candy at a bargain price for her triplets; in the second, True has dramatically hurled the candy out a window, warning her she'll poison her offspring with cheap sweets. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic vocabulary: sequential panels, speech balloons, exaggerated body language, and a protagonist whose outrageous response to everyday situations drives the humor. *Outbursts of Everett True* appeared in the Sunday pages and dailies, part of the newspaper comics that established the visual grammar later adopted by comic books.