Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring Everett True, a cantankerous character who challenges social conventions through blunt confrontation. In the first panel, True questions a child about a greeting ritual; the second shows him physically correcting the child's behavior with exaggerated force. The strip employs the visual language now standard to comics: distinct panels, speech balloons, expressive line work, and sequential action. *Outbursts of Everett True* was among the earliest recurring-character strips in American newspapers, helping establish the formal vocabulary that would define comic strips and eventually comic books. The strip's humor relied on physical comedy and social commentary rendered through dynamic illustration and panel progression.