Outbursts of Everett True

This daily strip follows Everett True, an irritable protagonist who responds to social transgressions with exaggerated violence. Here, roused from sleep by a neighbor's late-night fishing expedition, True escalates from verbal complaint to physical assault across two panels. The strip employs the fundamental visual language of newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive caricature, and escalating action for comedic effect. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran from 1905 to 1927, establishing the angry-man-loses-control formula that influenced generations of comic strip humor. The strip's economy of line and reliance on gesture exemplifies how early newspaper comics distilled gag comedy into repeatable visual patterns that would form the basis of comic book storytelling.