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Max Cannon, an innovative American artist, is best known for his irreverent comic strip "Red Meat." With its dark humor and offbeat characters, Cannon's work challenges conventional norms and explores the absurdities of modern life. Through his distinct artistic voice, Cannon continues to provoke thought and laughter in equal measure.
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."

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"People are essentially red meat. They are."

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"Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague."

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"That's not so important to me, that time thing."

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"These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people."

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"We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about."

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"Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad."

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"I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting."

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"What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige."

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"I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books."

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"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that."

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"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."

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"It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not."

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"We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong."

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"I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while."

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"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."

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"We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between."

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"You ever try to go a day without judgment?"

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"I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come."

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"Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about."

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"I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over."

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"People get really caught up in their own trips."

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"As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again."

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"I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure."

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"I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous."

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