The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.
I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.
I fucking love him
i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it
He also jabs racists in the eye!
I love the justice grandpa of fists
I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.
He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.
Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!
He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!
Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.
He said fuck the police!
He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.
He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.
He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.
You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!
And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.
I have a new role model
😍
“justice grandpa of fists”
It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.
Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited
Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.
we need him more than ever…
sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content:
He’s a hero, our Everett.
Just found out there were live action Everett True shorts (silent films, though, so the outbursts were largely body language)
I’m rereading Catcher in the Rye (yes bc of the discourse 🤡) and Holden’s like. I left on a note on my history test so my professor wouldn’t have to feel bad for failing me. I think my little sister is so smart and she’s my favorite person to talk to on the phone. I have to write this essay for my roommate on his shitty typewriter because I already lent my typewriter to someone else. I invite the friendless guy next door to go to the movies with us even though he’s consistently rude to everyone. I got in a fistfight with my roommate because I got so upset thinking about how badly he treats girls and the possibility he’d done so to one of my friends. I think you shouldn’t be intimate with girls you’re not really fond of and it’s confusing that sometimes things that seem rude to do are fun in that context and I don’t know what to do about it. I’m freezing in the snow because someone stole my coat but I still want to say goodbye. I couldn’t stand watching my former headmaster be rude and dismissive to students’ parents who didn’t look perfect and rich. I’m still heartbroken over my little brother’s death from leukemia.
And people not only call him a misogynist asshole but say things like “I get that’s he intentionally written to be an unlikeable monster, but I still hate this book because I just didn’t like the experience of being in his head.” The book opens with him telling you he’s in a sanatorium. There are other reasons to engage with art than just rollicking good funtimes entertainment jfc
I never posted these two, so here they are, the Hermann and Wei Triplet postcards for Shatterdome Seattle. Hermann’s at the Museum of Flight, and the Wei Triplets are throwing fish at Pike Place c:
