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Max Cannon is author and creator of the independent comic strip Red Meat.

Cannon began producing the strip in 1989 for the Arizona Daily Wildcat
Arizona Daily Wildcat
The Arizona Daily Wildcat is a student newspaper serving the University of Arizona. It was founded in 1899 as the Sage Green and Silver. Previous names include Arizona Weekly Life, University Life, Arizona Life and Arizona Wildcat. Its distribution is within the university and the Tucson, Arizona...

, the student newspaper of the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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(although he was not a student there at the time). The strip was later picked up by the Tucson Weekly
Tucson Weekly
The Tucson Weekly is an alternative newsweekly that was founded in 1984 by Douglas Biggers and Mark Goehring, and serves the Tucson, Arizona metropolitan area of about 900,000 residents. The paper is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies...

, and it now appears in over 75 alternative weeklies

Alternative weekly

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. It also appears in The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...

section of the satirical newspaper, The Onion
The Onion
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.

Cannon is also creator of the Comedycentral.com

Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....

webshow, Shadow Rock available now on Atom.com.

Cannon lives in Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

, U.S.

United States

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with his wife and their two young children. He hosts a monthly short film contest at the Loft Cinema. http://www.loftcinema.com/node/77 A longtime fan of Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

, Cannon recently did work for them. http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.9837.strange_tales_spotlight~colon~_max_cannon

His comic strip can be viewed at www.redmeat.com.

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