Red Meat

For mammal meat, see red meat. For other uses, see Red meat (disambiguation).
Red Meat
Author(s) Max Cannon
Website http://www.redmeat.com/
Current status / schedule weekly
Launch date 1989
Genre(s) comic strip

Max Cannon's Red Meat is an independent comic strip begun in 1989. It appears in over 75 alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries.[1] Since 1996, it has been available for reading on the web.

Style

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. Cannon has said that he wanted Red Meat "to have a look that was somewhere between clip art and arresting minimalism, so that the text was more important than the art itself,".[2]

Red Meat features "slug lines" at the top of each comic which are frequently alliterative. For example, "Official pace car of the apocalypse" or "puckered piehole of the pointless".

Characters

Many of the strip's human characters are 1950s caricatures.

Publication

The strip was briefly picked up by The Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student run newspaper of the University of Arizona, in 1989. It was then picked up by the Tucson Weekly.[5]

Cannon is also creator of the Comedy Central animated webshow, Shadow Rock (based on the Red Meat strip). The 10 episodes are now available on Atom.com.[6]

In 2009, Max Cannon urged his readers to contact the editors of their local alternative weekly papers in an effort to save the comics printed within.[7]

Three collections of the strips have been released:

References

  1. Lambiek comic shop and studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007-09-21). "Comic creator: Max Cannon". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  2. "Max Cannon: You 'Have To Be a Little Crazy' to Draw Alt Comics | Association of Alternative Newsweeklies". Aan.org. 2006-04-28. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  3. "Tramp Steamer in Your Soup Kitchen". Red Meat. Redmeat.com. 2003-08-26. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  4. "The Antidote for Pleasant Moments". Red Meat. Redmeat.com. 1997-11-24. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  5. "More meat amassed". Reno News & Review. newsreview.com. 19 May 2005. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  6. "Shadow Rock". Atom. 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  7. "An URGENT Message from Max Cannon to All RED MEAT Readers: The Alternative Comics Apocalypse Has Begun". Redmeat.com. Retrieved 2009-09-15.

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