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''[http://www.mezzacotta.net mezzacotta]'' (yes, [[All Lowercase Letters|all-lowercase]]) is a website launched by David Morgan-Mar and The Comic Irregulars (authors of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' and ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'') to showcase "all the weird, crazy, half-baked ideas we come up with."
It contains the following webcomics:
* '''mezzacotta''', a webcomic "with two people talking to each other. Mostly." Though it launched in October 10, 2008, its archive of daily strips extends significantly farther into the past. The archive contains strips for every day that has passed since the introduction of ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the World Wide Web, the year David Morgan-Mar was born, [[Older Than Television|television broadcasts]], [[Older Than Radio|radio]], [[Older Than Steam|the steam engine]], [[Older Than Print|the printing press]], [[Older Than Feudalism|the fall of Rome]], and so on. The 'earliest' strip in its archive [[Older Than Dirt|is supposedly 9,986,270 million years older than the presumed age of the Universe]].<ref>If you want to know where the comics ''really'' come from, they are {{spoiler|generated by a fractal algorithm seeded from the "publication date".}}</ref> One could, perhaps, think of it as the [[Jorge Luis Borges|Webcomic of Babel]]... or maybe the {{color|blue|Webcomic}} [[House of Leaves|of Leaves]]. You can find the "first one" '''[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 here]'''. It appears that the strip has not updated since [https://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=2019-11-16 November 16, 2019], when [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|something broke]].
* '''Lightning Made of Owls''': a webcomic consisting entirely of user-submitted [[Guest Strip|Guest Strips]] (much like the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100107141942/http://www.moovok.co.uk/gsp/ Guest Strip Project]), launched on 15 November 2008. Its name is a deliberate [[Word Salad Title]]. It features the following stock characters:
** Holly, an optimistic, lively young woman. Always depicted with clear round [[Nerd Glasses]].
** Ambrose, a learned, eccentric older man. Always depicted with a yardbrush moustache.
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** Delkin, a young technician, and the joker of the bunch. Always depicted with [[Hidden Eyes]].
* '''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]''' has its own page.
* '''Comments on a Postcard''': Having finally completed their magnum opus, the phenomenally acclaimed genre-defying webcomic known as ''Postcard'', the Comic Irregulars have started to re-run it from beginning to end. But there's a problem - all of the comic image files have mysteriously been deleted! Furthermore, nobody else seems to have ever heard of ''Postcard'', or have any memory of ever reading it. But, [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory|unperturbed]] by this apparent [[Delayed Ripple Effect|glitch in the time stream]], the Comic Irregulars are simply running the [[News Post|News Posts]] without the comic images, and hoping that the reader's imagination will suffice until they can find someone, somewhere, who has a backup copy of the files in their browser cache. <ref>Actually, [[Fictional Document|there never was a webcomic]] - they're just making up the "commentary" and leaving it to the reader to imagine the described nonexistant image. Whether or not this even counts as a "webcomic" is a question that'd have Scott McCloud lying awake at night.</ref> Launched on 8 December 2008.
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* '''Awkward Fumbles''': Launched on April 14, 2009. A collaborative webcomic where ''mezzacotta'' readers send in comic strips with blank speech balloons, and <s>the Comic Irregulars</s> other readers insert dialogue and captions of their own making, to create a finished comic that isn't quite what either of the parties intended! (If this sounds like something that the ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' creator Ryan North already did a while back, that's because it is.)
* '''Planet of Hats''': ''[[Star Trek]]'' recap comic, mocking [[Troperrific|cheesy stuff]] and [[Idiot Plot]]s. Updates Saturdays, but (now that it's covering ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'') not ''every'' Saturday.
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** There seems to be [[Fourth Wall Observer|a character behavior set dedicated to breaking the fourth wall]].
*** Specifically Brian has two [[Fourth Wall]]-breaking quotes on the [http://www.mezzacotta.net/cast/ cast page] and [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=2011-08-25 there's more].
*** And "Character 47" [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=2017-05-28].
** [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1569-02-14 This strip] is even a [[Shout-Out]] to [[TV Tropes]] itself.
* [[Parody Commercial]]: randomly shuffled. "UR ADHERE: The Babylonian Duct Tape". "The board game of strategic block conquest: Tetrisk".
* [[Ruined FOREVER]] - the first line in the first comic is "I think this comic is going downhill." If so, it's been doing so since before the universe existed, so it must either be pretty horrible now or have been ''really'' good at some point before.
* [[Sturgeon's Law]] - mitigated by the inclusion of a Hall of Fame for top-rated comics.
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* [[Unsound Effect]]: [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-6021-07-19 The strip for 19 July, 6021 BC]
* [[Webcomics Long Runners]] - by the page's criterion, ''the'' longest one. Possibly a subversion (or a sign that the criterion needs to be changed.)
* [[Word, Schmord]]: This is one of "Character 1"'s standard ways of being a [[Jerkass]], like in [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1788-08-10 this strip].
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Used in this [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1793-04-06 strip] from the late 18th century.
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