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The final season of “All in the Family” featured an episode in which Archie Bunker was confronted by a Kelvic immigrant named Fandor. The man’s bigotry so surpassed Archie’s own, that Archie was rattled into a rare moment of personal introspection.

This episode aired the same evening as an important playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys, and as a result was seen by very few people. Barely anyone was watching “All In The Family” by 1978 anyway. The writers had run out of ethnic groups for Archie Bunker to interact with and had to resort to the obscure Kelvic minority. It was an accurate portrayal, however, since Queens, NY does have the largest population of Kelvics and they are in fact bigots.

**What the hell is this all about? It’s an excerpt from my upcoming magazine piece “The Kelv Enthusiast” to be published in Mammal Magazine, Spring 2007. [Read more…]

Today’s featured member of the Mammal group is Jim Cooke.
As you will see from these paintings, Jim is an exceptional oil painter with highly developed color and composition skills.
He’s made a name for himself as a children’s book illustrator, doing numerous books for Scholastic and other publishers.

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The next member of the Mammal group I’ll introduce you to is Devin Clark. Actually, Devin is no stranger to the Frederator community. Two of his films have been featured on the Channel Frederator podcatst (his brilliant Comedy Central spots and his music video “Body Automatic”). He was also the director of the raunchy climax to our FredEx: The Secret Life of Robots animation jam.

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A lot of people who’ve read my blog posts on the fictional nation of Kelv have asked me if I’m really doing it for a magazine. Yes, it’s true. The first issue of “Mammal Magazine” is almost ready to be printed. This week I thought I’d blog about each of the five other “Mammals”. We all met in the Syracuse University art program and have been doodling together and scheming something like this for almost a decade.

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The key to drawing old people is using only pastel colors.
And the key to drawing any crowd quickly is to re-use the same people here and there.

-DAN METH

Here’s an oldie but a goodie:

I made this back in 2005 as a commercial for author Sam Apple’s book “Schlepping Through The Alps”. It ended up being a pretty big hit. (Jews apparently just love cartoons, especially cartoons about Jewish stuff)

This cartoon is also notable in that Derek “Nacho” Nason gives an excellent performance as the Pharoah. He’s gone on to perform in many more of my cartoons.

Also: The sheep character inspired my writing partner Ryan Van Winkle and I to write him into a new series we are working on called “Cavalcade of Laffs”. Instead of being a sheep he’s a ram now. And his voice is now provided by film actor Orville McCarter instead of myself. More on that to come.

-DAN METH