Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel newspaper comic strip featuring the recurring character Everett True, whose exaggerated reactions to social situations drove the strip's humor. In the top panel, a woman compliments True on his children's resemblance to him, particularly their heads. The bottom panel escalates the gag when True discovers additional children, prompting his indignant outburst. The strip employs the visual conventions established in early Sunday comics: panel borders, speech balloons, and sequential narrative. Everett True ran in newspapers from 1905 onward and exemplified the humor-driven strips that populated the funny pages, helping establish comics as a distinct medium with its own visual language and character-driven continuity.