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Amazon.com 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 ... Read more Reviews (16) 
Milkman Dan makes Hannibal Lector look like a girl scout!
Without a doubt "Red Meat" is the funniest comic strips ever. Like a multipanel "Far Side" for adults this comic is the ultimate in day light humor with a dark, twisted center. Milkman Dan is more innocent then Mr. Rogers but a scant millimeter under the surface is a hollow evil core that is comparable to "American Psycho" Never has the inherently comic side of surrealism been so well said. My only real complipant is that the books are so short. Come on Max how about larger editions?
Even I Love Red Meat and I'm A Vegetarian
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.
More of the same
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.
the classic conclusions of coulrophobia
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.
Hilarious and disturbing
Red Meat is probably one of the funniest damn comic strips in recent memory. This book shows a great range of the series, from the macabre ("Don't get too close to the killer whales!" "AUGH! MY ARM!" "..Yeah, ya got too close.") to the sadistic Milkman Dan and his little girl protege ("I hate you, Milkman Dan.") Many stories excuse their simplistic drawings with the saying that the intelligent dialogue makes it OK. Most of the time they're just excusing their own laziness. But in this strip, with the same drawings often used for every panel, it really is the dialogue that makes you laugh until you cry. I highly recommend this book. My only quibble is that it isn't longer!
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