Outbursts of Everett True

A daily newspaper comic strip by James Swinnerton featuring the irascible Everett True, who responds to social irritations with exaggerated physical violence. The three-panel strip demonstrates the formal grammar developing in early comics: sequential panels arranged vertically, speech balloons advancing narrative and character voice, and a recurring protagonist whose predictable overreactions drive the humor. True's fits of rage—here triggered by perceived drunkenness—became the strip's trademark. *Outbursts* exemplified how daily comics of the 1900s built humor around character type and situation rather than continuity, establishing patterns that would shape the medium's visual and narrative conventions for decades.