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Cool News: My College Humor cartoons have been nominated for a Streamy Award! Best Animation in a Web Series (Not to be confused with Best Animated Web Series… that’s a separate award!)
I guess I should click over to Orbitz and buy a flight to LA… the awards are the first week of April!
interviewed by Frankie Starbuzz, perhaps the most oddly hostile journalist on the web.
Hey bros, it’s Frankie Starbuzz here. The world’s premiere online entertainment journalist. Here’s an interview with Dan Meth that I would really love to drop on your face.
Dan Meth is responsible for most of the funny viral web cartoons you’ve seen on the world wide web. You may recall his past work “The Meth Minute” and “Nite Fite”. Or more recently his google map cartoons for CollegeHumor.com. On February 23rd, 2010 I was able to chat with Dan Meth via AOL Instant Messaging Software: the only way to do entertainment interviews.Frankie: What are you currently working on? That’s a good place to start as any other, right? Am I right?
(At this point Dan takes an awfully long time to respond. I take this moment to manually masturbate myself.)
Meth: I’m working closely with College Humor, making animated shorts for their website And also a top-secret TV project. Also I’m creating shorts for Atom.com.Frankie: What would you say the difference between those two sites are in terms of what you can do? In terms of content restrictions…
Meth: Not too much different actually. I guess the difference is that CollegeHumor has a stable of live action characters so I can sometime work with them and make stuff for their growing following of devoted fans.
Frankie: Do you have certain go to character voices over there?Meth: Yeah, well, there’s like 20 comedians within arms reach here so finding a voice is not hard.
Frankie: Have you met Sam Reich?
Meth: Hah yeah… I see him every day! I should have mentioned, these days I’m actually working AT the office.
Frankie: That’s a fancy office. (I once snuck into it via a grappling hook unit.) Is it true success has gone straight to Sam Reich’s head? I have to be honest, I heard he’s a real asshole.(Miliseconds elapsed)
Meth: I actually would completely disagree with that.
(Well, perhaps it was time for me to eat crow. But, maybe Sam Reich is paying off Dan Meth with illegal mind-altering drugs. Also, why would I eat a crow? Birds disgust me.)
Frankie: Whatever. The super top secret TV project… can you disclose ANYTHING for our readers?
Meth: Uh…I guess I can disclose… well … I’m not sure.TOP SECRET, sorry.
Frankie: Well, I guess we can continute…now that you have thoroughly devastated me.
(To be fair, Mr. Meth emailed me recently after the interview, disclosing these factoids: “Oh, and here’s all I can say about the secret project…A College Humor pilot for MTV involving live action and animation”.)
Frankie: Can you talk about Neil Young and Crazy Borscht at all?
Meth: Haha. I launched that site 56 minutes ago. You are on top of your shit.Frankie: I am the world’s premiere entertainment journalist.
Meth: It’s pretty simple: I LOVE borscht. I had never had it before. It’s not really a staple of the American diet. But, it’s delicious. Where I live there are so many restuaraunts with it.. So, I’m gonna try them all and review them… and figure out which Neil Young record is each dining experiences equivalent.
Frankie: Can I be frank? And I can, because I am Frank…ie. I’m loving it! I actually look forward to reading your reviews, perhaps I will dip my toe into the water that is BORSCHT.
Meth: EAT some. It’s like eating hemoglobin.
Frankie: Gross, bro. So, we talked about your current work with College Humor, your TV project, and your love of Borscht. What’s one thing that no one knows about Dan Meth? Make it good, because this is your final question. No pressure.
Meth: Oh fuck, I don’t know… you can tell them that among loving most music, I hold a special place for really cheezy white crooners such as Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Chicago etc. I recently sang at a friends wedding. Man, I don’t know if I want that in print…
Frankie: Too late Mr. Meth! It’s far too late for you now!
And that’s Frankie Starbuzz, signing off.
Fuck you.
Hey! Thursday night I’ll be showing some cartoons and awkwardly introducing them at the popular Brooklyn comedy night “Good News”. It’s free!
Other performers include comedians John Milhiser , Sean Patton, and special music by Leslie Collins
Thursday, Feb. 18th. Coco66 @ 8pm.
66 Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn, NYC …FREE!
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“Emomelon” shows up on Urban Dictionary
Maybe in a couple years it will be in Webster’s. Probably not, but a special thanks anyway to some dude known as “TheGreatFryMan” for adding it! Here’s the Emomelon cartoon in case you’ve never seen it:
Ultra-Culture Year In Review
A zine in the UK published my “Where The Wild Things” illustration in their annual movie issue… Which is cool, but I was especially psyched to see the creators of “Shaun of The Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” just a couple names above mine on the contributors list. Is England such a small country that any indie publisher can just email the top stars and ask them to write some articles for their hand-stapled zine? If only America was like that… I’d ask Nicholas Cage to do some voice-work in my next cartoon :)
Have You Guys Heard Of This New Thing Called “Twitter”?
It’s this brand-new web thing where you can type any thought you have and then pretend that other people are interested in it. Maybe I don’t really fully understand it quite yet… but if you want to “follow” my “twitter-feed” you will now be able to do so here:
http://www.twitter.com/theREALdanmeth
A cool blog from England called Platform asked me to write about five of the cartoons that I reference in my “Influences” video (see below). Click on over to read my ramblings on Joop, Dick Tracy, Brad Neely, The Neverending Story, and spaceships.
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Animation Panel at King Con on Sunday! We had fun, hope you did too!
from left: Rick Lacy (VENTURE BROTHERS), Devin Clark (UGLY AMERICANS), Dan Meth (METH MINUTE 39, COLLEGE HUMOR)
If you’re going to the King Con Comic & Animation Convention here in Brooklyn this weekend you should:
- stop by the Mammal Magazine table and say hello. I’ll be drawing strange portraits of anyone who wants one. An original caricature of YOU, drawn through the weird filter of my eye-brain for only a couple dollars.
- Attend the Animation Panel on Sunday at 6pm. I’ll be moderating a discussion about cartoons with Christy Karacas (SUPERJAIL!), Devin Clark (Comedy Central’s UGLY AMERICANS), and Rick Lacy (VENTURE BROTHERS).
Saturday and Sunday at the Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Ave. (R Train to Union Street)
See ya there! - Dan
We’ve got another T-Shirt for sale!
For all the ultra music geeks out there: A Beach Boys/Black Flag mashup. If you’ve always liked hardcore punk but you really dig the oldies (or vise-versa!), than this is the shirt for you. Click on over to Miss Wit T-Shirts to purchase one! There’s also this other Beach Boys shirt for sale based on my Pop Cultural Chart!
FUN FACT: Both of these bands started out within 5 miles of each other in the outskirts of southern Los Angeles!
Hey, remember that Beach Boys Pop Cultural Chart? Well now you can have it on a T-Shirt. It’s the perfect gift for people who like the music of the Beach Boys AND the data analysis of Venn diagrams! They can be purchased over here at Miss Wit Designs.
Or to get it at a special discounted price, pick one up from Miss Wit’s table at the WFMU Record fair this weekend in NYC! Fun Fun Fun.
If you’re in Philadelphia this weekend, check out the Project Twenty1 Film Festival. It’s some kind of three-day independent film screening bender, organized by my friend Stephanie Yuhas. They are showing both parts of my Watermelon Epic tomorrow at the Animation Showcase.
Come to the MTV Comedy Showcase tonight at the Slipper Room! There’s going to be stand up comedians, videos, stories, and songs. Amongst all this, one of my cartoons is going to be shown (I won’t give away which one). And there’s no cover charge!
7:00PM at the Slipper Room
167 Orchard Street, NYC
