History Webcomic / Mezzacotta

%%* AprilFoolsDay: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1547 This strip]] does the entire point of the webcomic in reverse for an April Fools gag.
%%* CelebrityParadox: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=121 Here]] (a shout out to [[Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids the other work by the Comic Irregulars]])

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are at least 50, but only a few of them have a name.

!!'''Awkward Fumbles''' contains examples of:
* PixelArtComic: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/fumbles/?comic=5 Pixels]]

* AprilFoolsDay: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1547 This strip]] does the entire point of the webcomic in reverse for an April Fools gag.
* CelebrityParadox: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=121 Here]] (a shout out to [[Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids the other work by the Comic Irregulars]])

* FictionalDocument
* LampshadeHanging: One of the "About" pages: "How awesome would it be if someone produced a webcomic without the comic? Each day, they'd just post the author comments for the comic, and leave it up to the reader to imagine what they actually drew. Perhaps there could be a fictional backstory about the mysterious lost comic for which only the author's comments survive."
** This was actually the original pitch, as posted on the Mezzacotta forums.
* NewsPost
* NoodleImplements: Along with NoodleIncident, this is pretty much the entire point of the strip.
* RunningGag: Several, particularly those involving cows and the tendency of the author's keyboard to stop working.

* ArchiveBinge: Over 3.6 quadrillion strips to read.
* BlankSlate: Some of the characters will say anything; others tend towards certain topics.
* BuffySpeak
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Not the exception, but the norm.
* CutAndPasteComic
* DadaComics: Almost the entirety of the 'archive'.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-12-10 This strip]].

* ForScience: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=2008-01-07 This strip.]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1703-04-18 Or this one.]] And [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1926-11-06 this one]] is verging on FrankensteinsMonster.

* FunWithForeignLanguages

* MadScientist
* MonkeysOnATypewriter: Given its sheer scale, the archive likely contains basic examples of nearly every trope.

* OneWordTitle

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=193-09-22 Here]].
* SturgeonsLaw: Mitigated by the inclusion of a Hall of Fame for top-rated comics.
** Used [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-516-08-28 in-comic]].

* StaticCharacter: Characters can be expected to remain the same (as much as is possible given their disconnected conversations) across ten trillion years.
* TheWebAlwaysExisted
* TotallyRadical

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The author ''really'' didn't like cows, [[AbortedArc until (s)he]] [[RealLifeWritesThePlot went into]] [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1642 therapy]].

* EngineeredHashtag: Parodied with [[https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1798 the attempted]] "[=#ReplaceEntireSentenceWithPostcardCharacters=]". [[invoked]]

* EngineeredHashtag: Parodied with [[https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1798 an attempt]] to make "[=#ReplaceEntireSentenceWithPostcardCharacters=]" a ForcedMeme. [[invoked]]

* EngineeredHashtag: Parodied with [[https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1798 an attempt]] to make "[=#ReplaceEntireSentenceWithPostcardCharacters=]" a ForcedMeme.

-->The website that went online before it was ready.

-->... [[TopGear All we know is, he's called The Hyperstig]].

* '''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 & Droids'', ''Irregular Webcomic!'', ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the World Wide Web, the year David Morgan-Mar was born, [[OlderThanTelevision television broadcasts]], [[OlderThanRadio radio]], [[OlderThanSteam the steam engine]], [[OlderThanPrint the printing press]], [[OlderThanFeudalism the fall of Rome]], and so on. The 'earliest' strip in its archive [[OlderThanDirt is supposedly 9,986,270 million years older than the presumed age of the Universe]].[[note]]If you want to know where the comics ''really'' come from, they are [[spoiler: generated by a fractal algorithm seeded from the "publication date".]][[/note]] One could, perhaps, think of it as the [[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Webcomic of Babel]]... or maybe the [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves Webcomic of Leaves]]. You can find the "first one" '''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 here]]'''.

* '''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield''': a user-submitted RemixComic inspired by ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield''. Each strip is a remixed ''{{Garfield}}'' strip, but remixed in an entirely different manner to the previous strips. Launched on 21 November 2008.

It contains the following webcomics:

* '''Webcomic/IToons''': a spinoff of ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' focusing on remixing comics other than ''Garfield'' or ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics''. Originally launched on 2 June 2015 at Blogger since David Morgan-Mar was too busy at the time to host it on Mezzacotta, moved to Mezzacotta on 29 December 2015 after the comic took off.

* '''The Prisoner of Monty Hall''': Launched on January 27, 2015. Written+illustrated by Ian Boreham (Comic Irregular).

'''Webcomic/IToons''' examples are on its own page.

'''Webcomic/LightningMadeOfOwls''' examples are on its own page.

'''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield''' is so trope heavy that it gets its own page.

'''Webcomic/PlanetOfHats''' examples are on its own page.

** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1569-02-14 This strip]] is even a ShoutOut to TVTropes itself.

-->The webcomic that broke TVTropes.

* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: eggplants

'''Awkward Fumbles''' contains examples of:

'''Comments on a Postcard''' contains examples of:

'''mezzacotta''' contains examples of:

-->From the people who brought you IrregularWebcomic

* '''WebComic/PlanetOfHats''': Launched on April 9, 2014. A ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' recap comic by David Morgan-Mar, inspired by ''WebComic/MonsterOfTheWeek''. Currently has all 79 episodes (excluding "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" as a separate episode) and ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries The Animated Series]]'', with plans to do the six movies featuring the original cast.

* '''WebComic/PlanetOfHats''': Launched on April 9, 2014. A ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' recap comic by David Morgan-Mar, inspired by ''WebComic/MonsterOfTheWeek''. Currently has all 79 episodes (excluding "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" as a separate episode) and ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'', with plans to do the six movies featuring the original cast.

'''Webcomic/PlanetOfHats'' examples are on its own page.

* '''Webcomic/IToons''': a spinoff of ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' focusing on remixing comics other than ''Garfield'' or ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics''. Originally launched on 12 June 2015 at Blogger since David Morgan-Mar was too busy at the time to host it on Mezzacotta, moved to Mezzacotta on 30 December 2015 after the comic took off.

* '''Awkward Fumbles''': Launched on April 14, 2009. A collaborative webcomic where ''mezzacotta'' readers send in comic strips with blank speech balloons, and [[strike:the Comic Irregulars]] 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 ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' creator Ryan North already did a while back, that's because it is.)

* '''The Dinosaur Whiteboard''': Launched on January 26, 2015. A webcomic that uses a whiteboard made from the DinosaurComics panels, on to which David writes the captions in marker pen.