https://en.wikipedia.org/... ">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’m seeing a lot of reblogs that are making me wanna remind people that everett true was a comic about a white guy made by a white guy in 1920. if you look up more comics expecting a woke hero you’re going to be disappointed. there are sexist comics, there are racist comics, there are comics where everett whacks a dude for wearing a wristwatch because wristwatches are effete. the whole windup to and entrance into world war one is an absolutely painful era to read if you know anything about what the war was actually like (which most americans at the time did not). the comics that hold up do so very well, but a lot of them don’t.
however! i’d be really interested to know more about that last comic, since it looks like it was drawn in 1948 and the strip itself ended in 1927. it’s great to see everett changing with the times, the way condo must have!
