Books : More Red Meat: The Second Collection of Red Meat Cartoons
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780312195144
ISBN: 0312195141
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: October 15, 1998
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Sales Rank: 480464
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product Description:
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.
Amazon.com Review:
What's funnier, a dead monkey or a dead clown? How many corpses do you have to tie together to make a raft? Are pigeons recyclable? These, and many other questions we're too afraid to include here, are answered in the latest installment from cult cartoonist Max Cannon, More Red Meat. Cannon's oeuvre can be found in countless weekly papers, on Web sites, and on the sides of buildings; it has infiltrated like a particularly unpleasant strain of the Ebola virus. Plumbing the depths of ickiness--and finding it funny--Cannon has gained a fanatical following for his rubber-coated look at suburban life. This latest collection includes Cannon's classic characters like the sadistic Milkman Dan, the mentally unstable Earl, and perverted, often-naked middle-class dad Ted Johnson, as well as introducing new characters such as the sadistic marine biologist Jacques Oiseux, the mentally unstable barber Walker, and deformed, middle-class outcast Johnny Lemonhead. If you haven't picked up the first Red Meat book, do so now, then return here, buy this one, and run to the most psychedelic shag-carpeted crash pad you can find to begin a trip into illustrated delight. --James diGiovanna
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
5 stars for Red Meat. Zero stars for Amazonian price gougers. Just go to the Red Meat web site and read all of the cartoons in this book (every single one of them) for free. Don't patronize these price-gouging sellers. This isn't a 3rd edition of "To Kill a Mockingbird" for Pete's sake. No need for the rare book prices on this one.
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One thing I've discovered about most newspaper "funnies" is that they're anything BUT funny. Well, except for the occasional Garfield™ and "The Far Side" strips... but even then, the yuks are/were few and far between. Of course, the lack of real laughs in the local rag's comics section is understandable: the humor has to be "safe", non-controversial, family-friendly... soulless and sterile. Just look at the recent furor (as of this writing) over the use of a certain four-letter word in "Doonesbury", and you'll see what I mean...
Anyhoo, not being a stickler for "safe" humor, I checked out the local alternative media-- you know, the free rags featuring a couple "in-depth" reports on some regional goings-on, and half-full of adverts for 976 numbers and male bath houses-- in the hope of finding some truly hilarious captioned sequential illustrations. Sadly, I found most of the alt-media funnies I came across almost as unfunny as, albeit a lot more high-concept than their mainstream counterparts. Fortunately, "Red Meat" wasn't one of these. Week in and week out, Max Cannon's secret stash o' goodies, illustrated in the "Xerox School of Cartooning" method, rarely fails to get a laugh outta me. If a strip's circulation was based on how truly funny it was, "Red Meat" would be in three times the number of papers the totally lame-@$$ "Family Circus" presently resides in!
Between the pages of this book you'll find yourself exposed to over one hundred examples ... Read More
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Max Cannon's first volume is superior, but More Red Meat is often more brutal. When I laugh out loud at the antics of a burn victim I know I'm in the presence of genius. Milkman Dan is singularly the most evil comic strip character since the guy who created The Family Circus. The more familiar the archetype, the more uncomfortable the humor--from the classic pipe-smoking Father Figure to the Condescending Priest to the "Outsider" Johnny Lemonhead ("So...which part of 'get out of town, freak' weren't you clear on, John?") Max Cannon feeds the gamut of Americana through the Meat grinder. I wish comedian Bill Hicks could have read this, and I wish they'd come out with a volume three. While I'm at it, I wish for some more of that official Red Meat non-prescription cough syrup--it's easily the strongest stuff on the market.
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As the title implies, this is just more red meat comics. That is all I was asking for. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might even throw up, but that's what it's for. Hopefully there will be an "Even More Read Meat" followed by a "An Obscene Quantity of Red Meat", and so on. I'd buy Red Meat books until I'm blue in the face. This isn't Family Circus, if your looking for that, then your in the wrong place.
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red meat is simply all it states in its title-raw, fresh, juicy, gory, addictive and taboo, yet satisfiyingly delicious. Max Cannon invites you into his world along with a sado-masochistic suburban family man (ted johnson), a groveling lacky priest and his constant battle for acceptance from god, a lemon-headed man (johnny lemonhead) who is as dense as his citrus-filled skull, a brillantly deranged drunken milkman (milkman dan), a bug-eyed paranoid creepy individual (earl), a sick jolly bearded business man (mister wally), a psychotic mailman, burn victims, and a number of unfortunate children who are surrounded by these twisted indivduals in a sickly suburb. Despite the ludicrousness of the characters, they parody a deep dark black humor of the human species in hilarious, not-so-far from reality situations. Each strip is a sweet, satisfing dose of bloody-meaty redness that will leave you sore for days. to all artists, punks, and geeks-buy this book.
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