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''[http://www.mezzacotta.net mezzacotta]'' (yes, [[All Lowercase Letters|all-lowercase]]) is a website launched by [[Tropers/Dmmaus|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."

* '''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]].[[hottip:* :<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:

* '''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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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]] -- the artist ''really'' doesn't like cows.

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* [[Depending Onon the Artist]]

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]

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* [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!]]: [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-12-10 This strip].

* [[Fun Withwith Foreign Languages]]

* [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"]]: [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-569-02-16 This strip.]

*** And "Character 47" [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=15692017-0205-14 This strip28] is even a [[Shout Out]] to [[TV Tropes]] itself.

{{quote| The webcomic that uses the proleptic Gregorian calendar.<br />

The webcomic with two people talking to each other. Mostly.<br />

The webcomic that uses SVG.<br />

The most innovative webcomic for quite some time. By some measures.<br />

The website that went online before it was ready.<br />

The webcomic that reduces hair loss and increases virility.<br />

The website with The Hyperstig.<br />

The webcomic that could use more publicity.<br />

Post about us in your blog!<br />

From the people who brought you [[Darths and Droids|Darths & Droids]].<br />

The webcomic that everyone is talking about.<br />

The longest running webcomic on the net.<br />

[[Lampshade Hanging|The webcomic with the rotating taglines.]]<br />

From the people who brought you [[Irregular Webcomic]]<br />

The webcomic that will revolutionise your web experience.<br />

The website with the International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation.<br />

The Emil Zátopek of webcomics.<br />

The webcomic that broke [[TV Tropes]].<br />

... [[Top Gear|All we know is, he's called The Hyperstig]].<br />

The webcomic that ''started'' [[Jumping the Shark|on the other side of the shark]].<br />

The proleptic webcomic.<br />

[["Weird Al" Yankovic|Dare to be stupid.]]<br />

Now totally sold out for the advertising bucks.<br />

* [[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].

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