QUESTION: in what city does Everett True live? ANSWER: I’m not sure if there’s a canonical answer, but FWIW the cartoonist Condo lived in Ohio (Toledo, Cleveland, and Findlay) from 1882 to some time after 1910 (source) (source) and according to an interview with the New Orleans States on 10/2/1917, Condo based Everett True on annoyances he saw around him:

Something after this fashion, Condo does his work: He walks around the block until he finds a human pest and he sicks Everett one that particular pest—on paper of course. For example:

“An acquaintance told me people pestered him into buying a Liberty bond,” recounted Condo. “So he bought the smallest one he could get—$50. He’s rich. It made me so mad I wanted to kick him.”

Condo didn’t dare to do that so he had Everett administer the punishment.

And that’s the way Everett True first broke into print. Condo came to the office one morning after a neighbor’s rasping phonograph had annoyed him unusually the evening before—kept him awake, in fact, long after he had retired.

Why wasn’t there someone to put a machine like that out of business, or to teach the owner of the machine a practical lesson, thought Condo. And before the day was over Everett was born—and the never-ending procession of pests has kept him busy ever since.

source: https://midwest.social/post/14800628/12554131