From the exhibition
Outbursts of Everett True
· January 26, 1909

A daily strip by A. D. Condo, *Outbursts of Everett True* follows its titular character through moments of social friction and exasperation. Here, Everett objects to a fellow passenger's drinking and breath, demanding he move to the rear platform of a train. The strip exemplifies early comic dailies: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive linework, and a recurring protagonist whose reactions drive the humor. Published in newspapers nationwide, such strips pioneered the visual language and narrative structures that would define comic books—panel composition, word-image integration, and character-driven continuity that readers followed daily.
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