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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True's Outburst of Love (Sept 20, 1922) (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Rolando@lemmy.world to c/truecomics@midwest.social

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Printed 102 years ago today in the East Oregonian.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] spacewizard@mas.to 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@Rolando This is the second one I've seen where True is mortified by the memory of his lovey dovey talk towards Mrs True in their youth.

In the other one he scoffs at a woman talking to a baby in a sugary cootchy-coo kind of way, and Mrs True points out that's exactly how he used to talk to her when they were courting.

Oh Everett. You will never live down your lovey dovey ways as a youthful swain

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There was that time in the park when he was sitting by this cooing couple and he was like: "I was young myself once": https://lemmy.world/post/18158570

[–] spacewizard@mas.to 4 points 3 weeks ago

@Rolando sweet Ev image there

[–] spacewizard@mas.to 1 points 3 weeks ago

@Rolando I hadn't seen that one!

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

mfw there's a racist caricature printed on the same page:

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

On the other hand, office cat.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago

Finally a solution that doesn't involve me using a knife on myself.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's going on with the Duffs Strip?

I get that dad walks in thinking "how dare that teacher", and then realizes the kid was the asshole, and Mom stops him and says it'll all work out.

Is there a punchline? Is it continued in tomorrow's paper? It just seems like four frames of wasted space with no pay off.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the joke is:

in panel 2, he thinks the teacher will be an "oldmaid who doesn't know much about children"
however, in panel 3 he sees she's not an "oldmaid", and in fact seems to know a lot about children.

That's why in panel 4 he wants to "teach" his kid something - presumably to respect his teacher? I'm not clear on why his wife tells him to calm down.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, if it was just him walking in the door, with "I'll teach him a lesson!" that would at least be the punchline, but her line just takes the edge off of the impact of his line, and makes me think there's new, more interesting information about to come, but nope, that's it.

Everett knows how it's done, but the Duffs haven't figured out the science of comedy yet.

Thanks for joining me in this century old comic critique! 😂