Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel strip featuring Everett True, the volatile protagonist who responds to social annoyances with exaggerated physical retaliation. In the top panel, True sits at a dinner table as a man describes a tedious story; in the bottom, True pursues the storyteller down the street, watering can in hand, dousing him with water. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comics' visual vocabulary: sequential panels, speech balloons, and a recurring character whose predictable eruptions drive the humor. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran in dailies and Sunday pages, capitalizing on the growing appetite for serialized humor that helped establish comics as a distinct medium separate from the illustrated gag cartoons that preceded them.