Outbursts of Everett True

A daily strip following the misadventures of Everett True, a bald, bowler-hatted everyman prone to explosive reactions. Here, True's dog spoils for a fight, prompting the owner to repeatedly cry "Sic 'em!" at a nervous passerby. The comic unfolds across two tiers: the setup, where True eggs on his dog, and the payoff, where the stranger becomes the unwilling target of the animal's aggression. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on physical comedy, anthropomorphized animals, and escalating chaos. Its panel structure and speech balloons became foundational to the medium, while True's stock character—the ordinary man undone by circumstance—proved endlessly recyclable in dailies across America.