Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip featuring the irascible Everett True confronting a woman about cigar stub litter in his home. The first panel shows True's complaint; the second depicts his escalating threat—to pour a dish into her neck if she doesn't dispose of the stubs herself. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic vocabulary: sequential panels advancing a gag through dialogue balloons, a recurring cantankerous protagonist, and physical comedy. *Outbursts of Everett True* appeared in daily and Sunday papers, part of the syndicated strips that established comics as popular entertainment and visual storytelling format that would define the medium for decades.