Outbursts of Everett True

A two-panel gag strip featuring the irascible Everett True, a recurring character whose violent reactions to minor social infractions drove the humor. In the top panel, True attacks a man for monopolizing the sidewalk; below, he throttles another pedestrian while bystanders watch in alarm. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions: recurring protagonist, speech balloons containing dialogue and catchphrases ("brainless wops"), sequential narrative across panels, and exaggerated physical comedy. True strips appeared daily in newspapers nationwide, helping establish the visual language—panel borders, word balloons, character continuity—that would define the medium and eventually the comic book format that followed.