Red Meat
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| Red Meat | |
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 Example strip |
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| Author(s) | Max Cannon |
| Website | http://www.redmeat.com/ |
| Current status | weekly |
| Launch date | 1989 |
| Genre(s) | comic strip |
- For mammal meat, see red meat.
Begun in 1989, Max Cannon's Red Meat is an independent comic strip. It appears in over 75 alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries. As of 1996, it has been available for reading on the web.
The strip features a cast of characters with abnormal personalities. A visual hallmark of the strip is the almost total lack of movement of the characters from panel to panel and a "Featureless Void" of no background.
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[edit] Characters
- Bug-Eyed Earl - A demented sort of person slightly resembling Edgar Allan Poe. Earl's appearances generally involve him telling a surreal, strange, and usually disgusting anecdote.
- Milkman Dan - The local milkman; eccentric and hostile towards some people, especially Karen, a neighborhood child.
- McMoo - A milk delivery icon that Milkman Dan occasionally dresses up as.
- Karen
- Ted Johnson - Some have thought this character was based on J. R. "Bob" Dobbs of the Church of the SubGenius, but Cannon has stated that Ted is based on his own father.[1]
- Ted's Son
- Ted's Wife
- Mister Wally
- Johnny Lemonhead
- Mr. Bix
- Clyde
- Babyhead
- Bad Dog
- Dead Clown
- Don
- God
- Ken
- Nick
- Papa Moai, an omnipotent Easter Island statue
- Ponzo
- Priest
- Reuben
- Spuderman
- Stubbo
- The Mailman
- The Old Cowboy
- Vern
[edit] Books
Three collections of the strips have been released:
- Red Meat - ISBN 0-312-18302-X (1997)
- More Red Meat - ISBN 0-312-19514-1 (1998)
- Red Meat Gold - ISBN 0-312-33014-6 (2005)
