Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring Everett True, the irascible protagonist created by artist Ben Barsham. In the first panel, True confronts a shopkeeper about a product brand; in the second, he sprawls on the ground after an explosive tantrum. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' reliance on exaggerated physical comedy and repetitive character types. Published in Sunday papers across America, strips like this established visual conventions—bordered panels, speech balloons, sequential narrative—that became foundational to comic art. Everett True's predictable eruptions over minor social frustrations made him a popular recurring character in the era when daily and Sunday comics drove the emerging medium's visual vocabulary.