Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel Sunday strip showing the irascible Everett True in domestic conflict. Top panel: True demands babies return their rattles, claiming they make too much noise. Bottom panel: The infants retaliate, pelting him with projectiles as he flees on all fours. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor—visual escalation, exaggerated character expressions, and domestic absurdity. Published during the formative years of the Sunday funnies, *Everett True* helped establish the recurring protagonist, multi-panel narrative structure, and speech balloon conventions that became foundational to comic art. The strip's crude but expressive linework and physical comedy typify the visual language emerging from daily newspaper strips in the early 1900s.