Outbursts of Everett True

A single-panel gag comic featuring the irascible Everett True confronting a barber in his chair. True objects vociferously to the barber's personal hygiene—specifically his onion breath and incessant chatter—while gesticulating wildly. The barber, unmoved, continues his work. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic humor: exaggerated physical comedy, speech balloons carrying rapid-fire complaint, and a recurring cantankerous protagonist. Everett True strips appeared in newspapers as both dailies and Sunday features, establishing the character as a popular vehicle for depicting social friction and everyday annoyances through violent gesture and frank complaint—a formula that influenced comic strip design throughout the medium's formative decades.