Outbursts of Everett True

This two-panel strip features Everett True, the irascible protagonist of one of the early twentieth century's most popular comic strips. In the top panel, True erupts at a neighbor who has littered in his yard while his wife's laundry hangs on the line. The second panel shows the escalation of his fury—True dumps his own trash directly onto the neighbor's property. The strip exemplifies the visual conventions emerging in newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a gag, expressive exaggerated features conveying emotion, and speech balloons containing dialogue and action. *Everett True* ran daily and Sunday from 1905 to 1925, helping establish the comic strip as a vehicle for humor and character-driven narrative in American newspapers.