Red Meat: A Collection of Red Meat Cartoons From the Secret Files of Max Cannon

by Max Cannon, Bill Griffith (Foreword)

Currently featured in over 50 alternative weeklies and college newspapers, "Red Meat" is quickly becoming one of the most popular alternative comic strips in the country. The official "Red Meat" Web site averages 30,000 page views a week. This collection offers readers a peek at the strip that's caused all the commotion.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Strips, Comedy, Comix

110 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[DaViD´82 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bible i definice černějšího než černého (nejen) stripového humoru.

[C. · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first introduction to Red Meat was through Mer, and at the time it was brilliant - absurd, offensive, over-the top in terms of violence, sexual content, and language, this book made me hurt myself laughing. Which is why I find it sort of sad every time I pick up an issue of the Onion and, without fail, don't laugh at the newest Red Meat. I don't know if its because Cannon has lost his touch; is stuck in a rut (there's only so many time the evil milkman threatening to dismember the little girl can draw a chuckle); or if the humour was always based on the pure shock value of the material, so your first exposure will to Red Meat will always be the best, as the more you read the less it shocks you. Perhaps Read Meat is the Dead Milkmen of the comic world.

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hey, it's a chunk of my younger years when gallows humour was fashionable and not real things that affect real people's lives!

...I mean, it's sort of a less-funny version of The Perry Bible Fellowship, which is similarly dark but with fewer "misses." Like, half of this book is just flat. Some of the less awful strips are okay Dad jokes:

Ted: Say, Dan...have you seen my son?
Milkman Dan: Yes, I have.
(beat panel)
Milkman Dan: And he's no beauty contest winner, that's for sure.
Ted: What I meant was, have you seen him around?

The "Stiff Stacy"* thread metamorphing into the "Roach" was just all around unfunny, though, even from the gallows humour point-of-view.

I'm pretty sure the main reason this stuck out to me at all was the Red Meat Construction Set, which at one time had a lot of fantastic fan submissions that were LOADS funnier than the official strips. I even didn't know there WERE official strips for a time! When I finally did look at some official strips, I was a little let down, in fact... so this is really just confirming my choices to wash my hands of it, I think.

For gallows humour, it's... okay. I think PBF does a better job, at least in the hit-to-miss ratio.

As a boring postscript, the ISBN for this goes to the hardcover, but this is definitely paperback. ISBN got reused? Listed wrong on Goodreads? Not really interested in figuring it out.

*Not-Dick Tracy

[terka · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jako já chápu, že tohle má být černý/morbidní humor... ale:
a) 90 % stripů nebylo vtipných
b) většina "vtipů" byla jen o drogách a násilí
c) random = funny, hahaha
d) strašně moc záviselo na té shock value, ale po asi deseti stripech o upalování zvířátek a drogování dětí to už bylo strašně předvídatelné a nuda

Těch pár dobrých stripů bylo dobrých jen proto, že porušily ten recept, podle kterého zbytek knihy jel. Bylo to fakt hrozně dated. Sálala z toho ta tryhard edgelord nálada internetu z early 2000's, úplně jsem z toho cítila ty 4chan basement dwellers z early 2000's. Ugh.

Asi pět stripů bylo fakt vtipných, proto 1 hvězdička.

[Matti Karjalainen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Max Cannonin "Raakaa lihaa" (Like, 2000) tuli opiskeluvuosina tutuksi jostakin ilmaisjakelulehdestä. Jotenkin muistelin, että nämä olisivat paljon hauskempia, vaan ehkäpä sarjakuvan absurdi, musta huumori toimi paremmin pienissä erissä nautittuna. Kokonainen albumi oli joka tapauksessa aika puuduttava kokemus, vaikka strippien joukkoon muutama helmi mahtui.

[Timo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aina tämä saa pysähtyneisyydellään ja kipeydellään nauramaan.

[Adam Šilhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Číst to v době vydání, šel bych určitě do plných. Teď už dospělý stripový humor není tak výjimečný (Daggson, Oglaf a další), tak Red meat trochu ztrácí na své výjimečnosti.

[AintGotTimeToRead · Rating 4 out of 5]

Warped and transgressive, in all the right ways.

[Siamese Twin Cobra]

Yeah, this shit’s weird. Can’t EVEN decide on a star rating.

[Julie Grace Immink · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meat served rare, with a lumpy side

[Soňa Lutherová · Rating 5 out of 5]

Legendary!

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book simply refuses to go out the door to the Goodwill or to a library sale with all the other books that were read and enjoyed by our family. It made a nearly permanent home in a forgotten sliver of space on a downstrairs bookshelf. The book demands to be picked up and read every couple of years, just long enough for you to have forgotten the routines and the punchlines and it feels like new material all over again. Don't trust this book! it will cling to you forever!

[Kenneth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first collection of "Read Meat" cartoons which was published in the mid 1990's. 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. Rereading it now, it's great to find that the strips are just as funny now as you remembered them.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been a fan of the web strip for a long time. this collection is clearly early strips but still good. Not every single one was funny, but many are definitely laugh out loud funny.
definitely not for everyone, the topics are pretty twisted and deranged but I love it.

[Cade · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of off-center humor and Max Cannon's Red Meat. This book hits the spot.

[joolz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very warped humour, love it!

[Linda Laird · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's hard to say when you know your son is a long running character in a weird cartoon series. He hasn't changed much in twenty years?

[David Holec · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skvělá oddechovka! Nic pro slabší povahy. :D

[Melissa Humphries · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious dark humor. Great character development, especially Ted.

[Adam McPhee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just thinking of the phrase "Frear of Natuke" makes me laugh.

[Hanča · Rating 3 out of 5]

Milkman Dan is my spirit animal.