From the exhibition
Outbursts of Everett True
· 1907

A two-panel domestic comedy strip depicting a husband and wife in bed. The first panel shows the man calling out to his snoring wife; she responds in the second panel with a complaint about his own nocturnal habits. The strip employs the visual conventions that became standard in newspaper comics: distinct panels, speech balloons containing dialogue, and exaggerated linework to convey motion and emotion. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran in Sunday supplements and dailies in the early 1900s, exemplifying the humor strips that helped establish comics as a distinct medium alongside the adventure serials and political cartoons of the era.
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