Max Cannon is at it again, with his second book of cartoons from his wildly successful comic strip, Red Meat, and it's every bit as twisted and edgy as the first one. Featured in sixty alternative weeklies and college newspapers, representing a combined readership of more than six million, Red Meat has a fervent and loyal fan base.
Max Cannon also has an official Red Meat web site, which averages 30,000 page views per week. It was honored with a Cyber Star award from Virtual City magazine. Max Cannon is at it again, with his second book of cartoons from his wildly successful comic strip, Red Meat, and it's every bit as twisted and edgy as the first one. Featured in sixty alternative weeklies and college newspapers, representing a combined readership of more than six million, Red Meat has a fervent and loyal fan base.
Max Cannon also has an official Red Meat web site, which averages 30,000 page views per week. It was honored with a Cyber Star award from Virtual City magazine.
I remember discovering Red Meat while using a classroom computer with a friend in elementary school, looking for images to go on a poster for some boring project, a few years before the millenium. There was something absolutely joyous about its twisted sense of humour, made even more subversive by its format: the otherwise staid three panel newspaper comic. It was like Max Cannon was giving permission for us to be weird.
This is the second collection of "Read Meat" cartoons, which was published in 1998. I recommend it to anyone who likes dark, edgy humor. I first read the strip back in the late 1980's or early 1990's when Kansas City's alternate weekly "The Pitch" was running it. Reading it now, it's great to find that the strips are just as funny now as you remembered them.