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…from your rock and roll friends at “The Meth Minute 39″.

-Steely Dan Meth

Well, kind of… David Levy, the head of ASIFA East wrote this trenchant analysis of my series on his blog. Coming from a guy who runs the biggest animation organization on the east coast and has won awards for his own films, it was an honor to get such a positive appraisal of my work.

But Levy is a man who gives honest opinions about the artform he knows well, and like Mike Tyson, he held back no punches on what he thought of my cartoon about …Mike Tyson.

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Many creators owe their start in the biz to Mr. Fred Seibert who has spawned oodles of opportunities for pitchers through his initiatives at Cartoon Network/Hanna Barbera (What-A-Cartoon!) and Frederator (Oh-Yeah! Cartoons and Random Cartoons). Dan Meth arrived on the scene in 1999 and gradually made a name for himself through his internet cartoons. Fred hired Dan Meth in March of 2006, and they [Read more…]

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Over a month later “Internet People” is still inspiring people to make response videos. Here’s a new one that i find strangely fascinating. Thank you to Youtube user LiLD223 for this :

If you’ve forgotten the original have a look:

-Dan

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Aaron Simpson of ColdHardFlash.com was in the other day and asked me about The Meth Minute 39 and how I make them. His resulting article is written very astutely. Thanks for featuring us and the new cartoon, Aaron! Stop by whenever your on the East Coast again.

Dan

Yesterday we were contacted by the Youtube user jhidekim, who put together the following video. I saw it a couple months ago and thought it was sadly hilarious. It’s the inspiration for my latest Meth Minute 39 cartoon, in which I recast it with dogs.

I still can’t tell if these guys are real or not. Some of them seem very hammy like overracting comedians… and others are so subdued and devoid of shtick that they must be regular men. I guess now that we’ve been contacted by the editor we can find out the truth. For those of you who haven’t seen my spoof, here it is:

-Dan Meth

Dan’s episode 5 of the Meth Minute 39, Mike Tyson’s Brunchout, is a pure TKO on Myspace, gathering 52,615 views and climbing!
Check it out, HERE: Mike Tyson’s Brunch Out
If you want to be one of the first to view it before we unleash the fury of Mike Tyson tomorrow at it’s regular scheduled time, go there immediately!
Thanks Myspace for showing us love, and extra special love goes out to the Myspace community for showing us their support through laughter and comments.
And if you aren’t pals with us on Myspace Already, y’all should add Channel Frederator.
(And ALL OF US too.)
I picked a few of my favorite comments, thus far.
I’m sure there will be many, many more by the time tomorrow rolls around.
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We’d like to give major thanks and a paw shake to our friends at College Humor for placing us on their Front Page Staff Vid Picks yesterday!
It’s also cool that we’re on their front page for Videos too!
Check that out here, Check out the Channel Fred Page at College Humor too, and don’t forget to comment and throw us a few bones of love.
Thanks College Humor!
-Jeaux Janovsky, Dog Whisperer

Enjoy the new “Meth Minute 39″ cartoon!

-Dan