Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel comic strip featuring Everett True, a character known for responding to social irritations with physical retaliation. In the top panel, a woman accuses True of cowardice; True responds by striking her husband. The second panel shows the woman's companion explaining that this is how True protects women from "brute husbands." The strip employs the visual grammar of early newspaper comics: bordered panels, dialogue balloons, dynamic line work, and sequential narrative. Everett True strips appeared in newspapers across America in the early 1900s, exemplifying the daily comic format that established foundational techniques later adopted by comic books.