From the exhibition
Outbursts of Everett True
· 1907

A Sunday strip depicting the title character's domestic chaos. In the top panel, a woman calls for help with noisy babies; Everett responds by instructing them to "squall." The lower panel shows him herding the infants around the room like livestock, suggesting his solution to the noise problem. The strip employs sequential panel layout with speech balloons to convey narrative action and humor through character interaction. *Outbursts of Everett True* appeared in newspapers during the early 1900s, part of the Sunday comic tradition that established visual conventions—recurring protagonists, panel-to-panel storytelling, and comedic timing through sequential art—that became foundational to comic strips and the emerging comic book form.
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