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This cartoon was printed 110 years ago today on September 1, 1914.

World War 1 was in progress, though it wasn't called that yet. On the Western Front, Imperial Germany's invasion was underway and the French and British armies had been in retreat for almost a week. Among the engagements of this day was a skirmish near Néry, where a dismounted British cavalry division fought a dismounted German cavalry division. The outnumbered British forces prevailed, and three British soldiers were later awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross. The French and British forces continued to retreat, but they were doing so in an orderly manner, and in a few days they would be ready to counterattack in one of the most significant battles of the century.

Meanwhile, in rapidly-urbanizing America, Everett True was beginning to wonder if cars were a good idea after all.

I know this much is True: https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?qs=outbursts+of+everett+true&ops=%7E5&searchType=advanced&dl=page&start_date=1905-01-01&end_date=1963-10-31&sb=date

Seek what is True here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date

Find True Here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date

Hey, want to read several thousand Everett True comics? Look here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date

Pick one and post!

On June 28, 1919, the day this was printed, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers of World War I. That's the context for the "hun mine-layer" comment.

ATTENTION EVERREADIES.

You can also find comics on old newspapers that ran it. For example this one comes from the Library of Congress archive of the Ogden Standard:

• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1920-02-03/ed-1/seq-9/

Through that page you can also find a job as a stenographer with a cement company, or a 3-room apartment for rent ($35!), or "two milch cows" for sale, if you happen to be in Ogden UT in 1920.

I urge you to look for additional comics and post them.

• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/

@[email protected] is going back to school and can't post any more!

E-Tru wants YOU to keep this community alive! Pick a cartoon from one of the following sources and make a post:

• https://www.barnaclepress.com/comic/Outbursts%20of%20Everett%20True/
• https://d.lib.msu.edu/gnn/1562
• https://xcancel.com/john34766308

Do your part... OR ELSE--

One of these links should work for you:

• [email protected]
• The Outbursts of Everett True
• https://midwest.social/c/truecomics

Looks like @[email protected] started this a week ago. Examples of and discussions on the classic "The Outbursts of Everett True" 2-panel comics from the early 1900s, in which a portly man objects violently to everyday wrongdoing.

A cyberpunk story originally published in 1987! Kind of interesting to see that era's depictions of cybersecurity and AI.

cross-posted from [email protected]

--==J 0 H N N Y M N 3 M 0 N 1 C==--

"One more run, Johnny..."

"SNATCH BACK YOUR BRAIN, ZOMBIE!!! SNATCH IT BACK AND HOLD IT!!!"

"Hit me!"

"What's going on, Ralphie? This sounds like a blown deal, man!"

"I WANT to get online... I NEED a computer!!!"

"Initiate the virus!"

"I could crash you from here, man! Wipe out your entire fucking board!"

"Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves! Technological fucking civilization! But we still have all this shit. Because we can't live without it..."

With:

• a young Keanu Reeves in his underwear,
• Ice-T,
• Henry Rollins,
• Dina Meyer
• Dolph Lundgren,
• and "Beat" Takeshi Kitano.

Screenplay by William Gibson

Featuring Turkish subtitles, to evade copyright strikes from the corporate bots that are continually prowling cyberspace! Jack in to your portable network device, and stream this data straight to your in-skull neural network! ...if you have the memory for it...