Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip following the irascible Everett True, a recurring character whose exasperated reactions to mundane frustrations drove the comic's humor. Here, True confronts a woman about her choice of a trash dump as a picnic site, then finds himself conscripted into cleanup labor. The strip employs the visual conventions emerging in early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a narrative, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and expressive figure drawing. *Outbursts of Everett True* ran as a daily and Sunday feature, helping establish the newspaper comic strip as a distinct medium that would directly influence the development of comic books.