Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Max Cannon.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Red Meat is a weekly black and white comic strip by Max Cannon. First published in 1989, it has appeared in over 80 newspapers, mainly alternative weeklies and college papers in the United States and in other countries. It has been available online since November 1996.
I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.
I wanted to be a painter.
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.
That's not so important to me, that time thing.
I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.
It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.
As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.
People are essentially red meat. They are.
Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.
Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.
You ever try to go a day without judgment?
I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.
We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.
These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.