Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip depicting the titular Everett True, a cantankerous gentleman prone to volcanic outbursts of rage over minor social transgressions. In the top panel, True erupts at fellow passengers in what appears to be a train car; the lower panel shows him accosting a conductor about sanitation violations. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, expressive caricature, speed lines and smoke clouds to convey action and emotion, and dialogue balloons anchoring each beat. *Everett True* exemplifies the daily comic strip format that emerged in American newspapers around 1900, establishing recurring characters and situation-based humor as the template for both newspaper comics and the comic books that would follow.