Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring Everett True, the irascible protagonist of this newspaper comic. In the first panel, True lectures a companion on human nature—"there isn't a man living that can't be bought at some figure." The second panel delivers the punchline: True's own integrity immediately crumbles when offered money, shown through exaggerated action lines suggesting rapid capitulation. The strip employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels, speech balloons, expressive caricature, and quick comedic timing. Everett True strips appeared in daily and Sunday papers, contributing to the visual vocabulary and narrative structures that shaped the emerging comic book form.