Outbursts of Everett True

A single-panel gag strip showing a man scolding another in a library reading room for chronic snuffling—the noisemaker sits with legs propped on furniture, handkerchief in hand, while his antagonist delivers an exasperated ultimatum. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor: situational comedy rooted in public etiquette violations, broad caricature, and anthropomorphic body language. *Everett True*, which ran in daily and Sunday papers, helped establish the vocabulary of comic strip layout—speech balloons, expressive linework, and recurring characters defined by personality quirk. The strip's episodic structure, built on social transgressions and comeuppance, became a template for humor comics throughout the twentieth century.