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Imagine ALL off the developers around the world working on an X server replacement.

Hmm, like in the mythical man-month, where each time you add a developer you reduce quality, introduce stress, and increase delay?

OK, I'm squinching my eyes... imagining... AAAAAHHHH! AGGGHGGHHH!!!!!!! Make it stop!!!!

I am a fan of red meat, a dark and twisted comic.

Red Meat - always delightfully twisted.

http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/current/index.html

I prefer the bug-eyed Earl version

That sounds like a Red Meat slug line.

When it comes to meat, I prefer red meat.

Hmm, I found this article recently. I wonder if it's related?

Obligatory Red Meat...

Why not call it the Max Cannon?
http://www.redmeat.com/

Sure! Here you go.

One more for the list - http://www.redmeat.com...

So? A movie deal isn't every cartoonist's goal. Many great comics (especially comic strips) would make terrible movies. There are other ways to profit-- like merchandise and publishing, even selling original art.

BTW there are quite a few cartoonists who work in print-- typically "alternative weeklies" like the New York Press, or with indie comics publishers like Fantagraphics-- but also make their strips and archives available on the web. I wouldn't call them "webcomics" in the Penny Arcade mold but these guys have seen that distributing their work over the intraweb as well as whatever publishing opportunities come along, is a good way of reaching fans... Some of my favorites (catering to my weird tastes, of course:)

Perry Bible Fellowship
http://cheston.com/pbf/archive.html
Maakies
http://www.maakies.com/
Underworld
http://www.kazunderworld.com/
Migraine Boy
http://www.gregfiering.com/migraineboy/index.html
Red Meat
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/

I thought you were going to say:
"But it's not always right. And where it's not right, my assertion is."
Now THAT would be great ;) At least, we would always know the truth :P

Alas, we don't get to always know the truth.

Alternately, it's one of those "beware what you ask for" deals ... see Nine-Foot-Long Outhouse Ladle.)

-kgj

Microwave Pet Carrier

This whole mess just reminds me of one of my favorite comic strips.

because of my public pro-stance on free software... I was on their shitlist and they would not sell me, and therefore the company I currently work for, a license to use Bitkeeper.

Holy hell. That's not so much unprofessional as infantile. Let's hope Linus never pisses Larry McVoy off...

Linus: "Hey, that's a pretty nasty-ass shirt you're wearing!"
Larry: "Yeah? Well, in that case I revoke your BitKeeper licence! How d'ya like them apples?

Actually, you don't even need to do the href anymore - just do a - Like this http://www.redmeat.com/

This reminds me of the work suits the First Hundred used in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy

Not quite complete spacesuits, but enough to keep you alive and working while on the surface of the red planet. They included a lattice of warming wires beneath a flexible exterior.

Next up: harvesting bodily fluids with a suit.

That substance, exuded by humans pressed together too tightly (as fruitcake in a juicer) that causes politeness to evaporate, intelligence to rot, and cars to get dented.

See here for more information.

Mr. Bix Please?

Whoops.

SinFest

RedMeat

Ok, RedMeat is in a few papers, but it still rocks.

Jaysyn

The Mark of The Beast! 666! THE FALSE PROPHET!
THE END IS NEAR!!!
REPENT!!!!

Whew! I feel better now. I hav'nt had this big of an anxiety attack since I recovered from being an SDA.

Paranoia, how the hell could MSSQL track 270 Million people (USA only) and all their millon peices of tagged shit and keep it straight? (and you know that they will use MS products)
One good security hole and anyone who wants to won't exist or own anything.
Good thing no one uses RDBMS on OpenVMS anymore, it might work.

Jerkcity and Pokey are great :-)

I guess Jerkcity isn't for everyone, with the constant gay jokes et al, but Pokey's absurde humor is a laugh-o-rama

if you like comics that are a bit offensive or weird, you may like Red Meat

Since when has amazing art been required for a comic strip? Gary Larson himself admits that his art is weak, and nobody can argue that The Far Side has not been one of the best comic strips of the last few decades.

And as far as online strips go, I think that simple, black & white art really fits some strips out there. The dry humor styles of Red Meat and Random Axe of Kindness actually benefit from art that is similarly simple, IMHO.

Sounds like redmeat

If you don't recognize the dead clown in the picture, he's from a couple comics over at redmeat.com: the doleful mewling of freshly-weened wussies and tedium's oaken tent pole.

If you don't recognize the dead clown in the picture, he's from a couple comics over at redmeat.com: the doleful mewling of freshly-weened wussies and tedium's oaken tent pole.

That's the clown from Red Meat

http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/1999-03-29/index.ht ml

Been there, done that: A Good Use For A Dead Clown

I still prefer redmeat.

I've had a couple different ones - Galactic Overlord, Alpha Primate, and so on - but the one that most people that I've worked for recenly know me for (and the one that I've used at the last three or so jobs) is "Gun-Toting Psycho". (Inspired in part by a Red Meat comic strip.)

Well, time goes by, and things happen, and eventually my title and I got a mention in a front-page New York Times story about this very subject. (Can't find a URL right now, but it was about six or seven months ago.) Anyway, the higher-up types at The Company didn't take too kindly to me talking to the press without official sanction, and people were not happy all around.

I wound up leaving that job shortly thereafter, but I've still got my Gun-Toting Psycho name plate, and a whole stack of business cards...

I can't believe there's not one mention of Red Meat anywhere. One of the funniest I've found online....twisted sense of humor required.

For the not-so-faint-of-heart, keenspot has a great "List Of Potentially Offensive Webcomics". Classics such as SpaceMoose, and Celebrity Car Wash figure prominently. Also contains links to the newer low brow comics on the web.

On a completely different note, here are my personal faves: Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, Exploitation Now!, MegaTokyo, Red Meat, HotenDotey, and Jerk City.

I am sure I forgot a couple of my regulars, but these are the major ones.

RedMeat. My favorite and one of the most bizarre comics. ffatTony

I'm the son of a librarian, and I know firsthand that they are trying to stop this in any way they can... but should that not work, we're screwed, because I can research virtually nothing for my anatomy course... unfortunately, they get their internet connection through the local school, who has some kinda filtering software up... it's really screwed up, you can't go to half the 3rd party candidates' websites, 2600, or even the Onion. It's really annoying, because I got one of the librarians hooked on red meat, and now we can't access it!

Thad

Thad

Hrm. Reminds me of red meat, possibly the funniest cartoon ever to grace my videocard.

Supermarket

Ted loves his skimask

Ok, so I have a strange sense of humor.

Hrm. Reminds me of red meat, possibly the funniest cartoon ever to grace my videocard.

Supermarket

Ted loves his skimask

Ok, so I have a strange sense of humor.

It is one of the most sarcastic things I've ever read. If you created it on company time, it's even better. If anyone has 30-45 minutes to waste like I did, go read it.

Leisuretown rocks. :) QA Confidential is my favorite as a CS major, but funnily enough, I was introduced to it by my History major roommmate. BTW, if you like weird (and violent) humor, check out Redmeat.

And here I was thinking it was a RedMeat quote.

I like it, keep it.

And there is definitely something sinister behind those moving eyes...

Is it still there?

This reminds me...what if this technology was used on redmeat.com? Let's hope that Max Cannon doesn't combine iSmell with this (with apologies to M.C).

-X_Bones

I'm gonna suggest 'Peter, the Privacy Panda.' Maybe he can hang out with Smokey the Bear and McGruff.

Definitely a job for McMoo - The Anti-Drug Cow.

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this! Aaaah, the smell of Red Meat in the morning!

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Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
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Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
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The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

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Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
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FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
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Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
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Am I the only person in the world that finds no humor in this comic strip? I have never read a strip that even made me smile.

I'm with you

I remember from a few years back, a critic slagged off Ben Elton's stand-up comedy as being only funny to sycophantic lefties who'll laugh at the mere mention of Margaret Thatcher. I think they were wrong. But they'd be right if they had said that User Friendly is only funny to sycophantic Linux-heads who'll laugh at the mere mention of Microsoft.

Come on, it's just not that funny! If it wasn't aligned to your political beliefs, none of you would glance at a second strip!

(and the artwork is terrible, too)

(and and, for whoever said "at last a web comic is getting the respect of a publishing deal", Red Meat has two volumes in print, and is 100x funnier to boot!