Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the irascible Everett True confronting a visitor in his office. The first panel shows a man interrupting True's work; the second captures True's explosive reaction—literally setting his desk ablaze as he ejects the intruder. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor: exaggerated physical comedy, rapid escalation from mundane social situation to anarchic violence, and the recurring character of True himself. The sequential panel structure, speech balloons, and body language-driven punchline showcase the visual grammar developers were codifying in the dailies and Sunday pages that would define American comic art for decades.