Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip featuring Everett True, the irascible protagonist of this popular newspaper comic. In the first panel, a barber questions True about his unruly hair; in the second, True responds with characteristic aggression, grabbing the barber's hair in retaliation. The strip exemplifies early comic vocabulary—sequential panels, speech balloons, and exaggerated facial expressions—that defined newspaper comics of the early 1900s. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran as a daily and Sunday feature, capitalizing on readers' appetite for humor centered on an aggressive everyman who violates social convention. The strip's visual style and pacing directly influenced the development of comic book storytelling.