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[[caption-width-right:290:Hey, he ''did'' [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=908 shave his beard!]]]]

Mason Williams, a.k.a. Tailsteak, is a Canadian {{webcomic}} author best known for ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'', an intensely metafictional story of creation, improvisational physics, philosophy, character development, and a RunningGag. Since the completion of that comic, he began publishing several other comics serialized on his personal website--these have been mostly placed on hold with the start of ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup''. He is also an author of straight fiction, including a short novel titled ''[[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=513 bang: an apocalypse,]]'' and of at least two role-playing systems.

He is married to Amber M. Williams née Panyko, the artist behind ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''.

[[http://tailsteak.com/ His personal website can be found here.]]

!!Works
* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero''
* ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup''
* ''Webcomic/{{Forward}}''
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!!Tropes
* FaceOfAThug: Self-professed. He's also referred to it as his "resting murder face."
--> "I'm the bald white guy who, even in broad daylight, looks like he's about to step out of a dark alley and shank you. I promise, I'm really friendly, my face just does that."
* ILikeMyXLikeILikeMyY: Fans of ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'' will remember seeing [[http://leftoversoup.com/cast.html the cast page]] use this--which is appropriate, as tailsteak.com featured [[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=402 this list of characters from other webcomics]] some years earlier.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: [[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=370 What it feels like]] to be Franchise/{{Superman}}.
* ParlorGames: The site includes [[http://www.tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=178 a series of drawings based on playing 20 Questions with a coin.]]
* SelfDeprecation: Occasionally pokes fun at himself in the author's comments, such as in this one from Leftover Soup:
--> " I'm not a racist - I'm a sexist, an ageist, a classist, an intellectualist, and a narcoticist! Those are all socially acceptable prejudices."
* TakeAThirdOption: One series of stories on the site features three characters: [[StrawmanPolitical Lefty, Righty]], and TQ. TQ stands for ''Tertium Quid'', also known as this trope.
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