Everett True Comics

Originally published 1906-12-24

Discovered thanks to Rolando's post in the sticky. I actually do think this is worth posting because it's funny. What would y'all do in his situation? Genuine question. WWED (What Would Everetters Do)?

Originally published 1906-12-23

Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image slightly cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to post something yourself!

Printed 107 years ago today in the Grand Forks Herald. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found the the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a comic from there and post it yourself!

Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick one yourself and post it!

Several of E.T.'s comics are about the importance of voting. Early voting wasn't a thing back then, but it is now, and it has started in most states. See here: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original.

Printed 112 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, especially on the letters, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick something from there and post it yourself!

Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!

Originally published 1906-07-19

This concludes the baseball arc!

Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

I didn't watch it yet, but found it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outbursts_of_Everett_True#Adaptations

Originally published 1906-07-18

Printed 109 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site; feel free to look there for something to post yourself!

Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon from there and post!

People sometimes ask why these old comics are still relatable, and part of the answer is: selection bias! Namely, those of us who post them tend to select those that we find relatable. To highlight that, here are all the Everett True comics on the Library of Congress site that came out on October 26 (of various years). These are not cleaned up or even cropped from their newspaper:

• Everett True doesn't give up his seat! 1905. Inconsistent with how he acts in future years
• Everett True complains to Mrs True 1906. A candidate for selection
• Everett True berates an employee 1908. Not very good behavior.
• Everett True discusses tariffs. 1910. Kind of relevant to current US politics. But the joke isn't that great.
• Everett True objects to a preacher's language. 1910. Probably more relevant back in the day.
• Everett True pushes past a guy. 1914. Kind of funny, but not really all that exciting
• Everett True wants to get waited on. 1914. Maybe kind of relateable... not really though.
• Everett True objects to a card game. 1914. I don't really get it, but I don't play cards...
• Everett True doesn't do chores. 1916. Only slightly relateable
• Everett True objects to a dating couple. 1916. wtf?
• Everett True beats up a drunk who doesn't buy a Liberty Loan. 1917. Kind of dated.
• Everett True beats up another guy who didn't buy a Liberty Bond. 1917. Also kind of dated. Note that the quality of this image is very poor.
• Everett True beats up a guy who wakes him up. 1918. Dated, kind of...
• Everett True objects to tipping. 1918. Very relevant, though they seemed to tip differently back then. A candidate for selection.
• Everett True freaks out on the phone. 1921. I don't really get this one, I think he was listening to "hold music"?
• Everett True gets called to bail out a friend who was speeding. 1921. A candidate for selection.
• Everett True can't get a word in. 1921. A candidate for selection.
• Everett True irritates Mrs True. 1921. Would be a candidate for selection but I'm not crazy about Mrs True referring to his "brutality" - it sounds like he's abusive (which he isn't shown to be).
• Everett True has gout. 1922. Wat is gout? I thought only Kings of England got it. Seems dated.
• Everett True hates jazz. 1922. seems weird. I think jazz back then was like rock n roll was later on?

SO TO SUMMARIZE, out of 20 candidates, only 4 of these are candidates for selection. I'd probably pick the one related to the dangers of speeding, because it might appeal to the [email protected] crowd (of which I am one!) Or maybe the one about tipping, since the image is a lot cleaner. But many of the other ones are dated, some don't make sense, and some even present Everett in a very unflattering light.

Another thing to think about is that this may not be a complete selection of the comics that could be available. Some might only be in newspapers that are not in the Library of Congress' archives. Some might not have been selected for publication by the editors of the papers that are (because I think a batch of comics would be sent to the newspapers periodically, and the editors would then fit one in whenever they had room). And some, like that one example from 1917, might be in such poor condition that it couldn't be cleaned up enough. I think this is a type of survivorship bias, but I'm not sure. ~~Anyway, I hope that was interesting! And if it wasn't, then... OUTBURST.jpg.~~

EDIT: I should have ended this by saying: as you can see, there are plenty of comics that aren't chosen, but maybe you see some that you think are worthwhile! If so please feel free to post it! Just take a screencap and crop, look for more comics here:

• library of congress (older interface)
• library of congress (newer interface)
• collection - july 15 1905 to sept 14 1909, 494 comics
• collection, 1907, 94 pages

Printed 103 years ago today in the East Oregonian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

Originally published 1906-7-17

Printed 105 years ago today in The Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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Printed 109 years ago today in The Day Book. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.