Outbursts of Everett True

This two-panel strip follows Everett True, a bald, rotund character prone to explosive reactions to everyday social annoyances. In the top panel, True holds a chair at a crowded theater while explaining to a neighbor that he's keeping it for a friend. When the friend fails to arrive, True's companion asks if he'll attend the show. The bottom panel delivers the payoff: True has pitched his neighbor through the theater wall, then sits alone with the vacant seat. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor—visual exaggeration, recurring character types, and the escalation of minor social friction into absurd violence. *Outbursts of Everett True* appeared in Sunday newspapers and established the visual grammar of sequential panels and speech balloons that would define American comics for decades.