act_i_vate: "Kelly" Part 6

Dan Goldman (

dangoldman) wrote in

act_i_vate,
@ 2006-03-08 23:01:00

"Kelly" Part 6

Not up to date? Keep up with the herd, ya heard...?
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

And if you're reading this still, why not DROP ME A LINE in the comment field below and let me know what you think? Doing comix online/weekly, the instant feedback is the Nutella on our banana.

"Kelly" slideshow on Flickr esta AQUÍ. See you next week, cuties.

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	commercial break: Relax... With A Spliff! fuckin_nice_guy 2006-03-09 04:30 am UTC (link)
	It's so true... once in the grip of an emotion, your facial features change quite a bit... poo (Reply to this)

	death penalty dishliquid 2006-03-09 04:31 am UTC (link)
	Oh how you make me want to strangle the room mate. The piece-of-shitness is fucking palpable. I love your colors BTW. I like the comic. I hate the character. Seeing him get his would be so rewarding. Please kill him. Its the least you could do after to exposing me to his neo-nazi, enema covered as. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: death penalty dishliquid 2006-03-09 04:37 am UTC (link)
	I like the panel usage too. Its like a series of woodcuts. Psychadelic woodcuts. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shhhhh...... dangoldman 2006-03-09 05:18 am UTC (link)
	Keep your voice down, man... Max hasn't seen that tattoo yet. He might hear you and react... poorly. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: shhhhh...... dishliquid 2006-03-09 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	Oh dear... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-03-09 05:00 am UTC (link)
	i'm really curious how this will proceeed. the art work is great. looking forward to more even though i am being grossed out. tatiana (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-10 04:28 am UTC (link)
	i hope this week's episode gives you more of what you're craving. stay with me; things are about to get more interesting... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	man_size 2006-03-09 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	OH NO! And I thought Max only had work and roommate problems? Girls, too??? Love the juxt 'tween photo and art. Somehow, your kind of expressionism makes it sing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rami_efal 2006-03-09 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	I agree, I haven't seen anyone make photo+art work as effectively as you do. Awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	benchilada 2006-03-09 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	Frame six kills me. Melty face. Bril. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-10 04:32 am UTC (link)
	Looking at loads of untranslated manga here in NYC at Book-Off; not being able to read the stories makes it easier to isolate/pinch some of manga's simplest visual indicators for use here in the West. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	chipzdarsky 2006-03-09 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	This is so good. Technicolour madness. (Reply to this)

emonxie
2006-03-09 04:52 pm UTC (link)

badass, great narrative, fav's def being the title card, love the chiseled lines there, and the door lean relief, very much has a sweet Dave McKean "Cages" feel..

On the constructive crit side, the digital feel of the word bobbles doesn't compliment the line weighting and color slabs, seems to clean and inorganic to my eye. For example, if the balloons "breathed" the way the lines describing the phone do, they would possibly better live inside the frames. I defer to that "Cages" book as an example of merging, though perhaps excessively, the narrative and dialogue text into the image panels. Paul Pope would be another good example, or that cat did the Matrix and hardcover Batman story, "Engine" I think it was called, sorry, drawing a blank on his name. Doh!

Brilliant work, though, look forward to seeing more!
Cheers!
e

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	dangoldman 2006-03-10 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for the crits; I've been craving the conversion of my handwriting into a font or two but I simply don't have the time. Maybe for the "Kelly" graphic novel...? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xoshua 2006-03-09 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	the cat on the headboard(?) is awesome. an old roommie of mine has a cat that will sit in the most uncomfortable places/positions... and i just wonder why he stays there when there's somany otherplaces he could be. (Reply to this)

	lordcrotch 2006-03-09 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	im surprised no one mentioned the gloria estefan ring tone... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-10 04:36 am UTC (link)
	sigh Me too. There always seems to be a happy/cheesy song/ringtone that pops up during your darkest hour; there's a sugar-coated brutality to it that I love. The Coen Brothers do it the best in their music choices in "Fargo"... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	lordcrotch 2006-03-10 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	i'm a fan of american psycho's axe to the face during huey lewis and the news myself (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jerem_morrow 2006-03-10 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Reading, still. Enjoying, still. Disturbed, still. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-10 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	Writing, still. Drawing, still. Thanking, still. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sxe_yeti_sxe 2006-03-10 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	It didsturbs me. But I'm a huge fan of being taken outside of your comfort zone. So thank you, good work. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-10 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	My pleasure. Just how far out of your comfort zone are we talking...? I feel like this is a double-dog-dare. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	sxe_yeti_sxe 2006-03-13 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't reached that boundry yet, so it might be a dare. But I'm hoping that it's not. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	eeriemusic 2006-03-14 02:32 am UTC (link)
	I love Kelly so much that I avoid it depending on what sort of food I've consumed during the day. This one, however, did not make me sick on first read... Even after drinking a giant latte... What is this? Dan going clean? I should hope not. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-14 02:49 am UTC (link)
	Just hold my hand and be quiet... we're almost there. I'll protect you. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nex0s 2006-03-14 02:35 am UTC (link)
	Kelly freaks me out. deeply. but i like it anyway! but i can live without seeing his ass ever again. n. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dangoldman 2006-03-14 02:50 am UTC (link)
	The bad news is: more ass, coming soon. Stay tuned and keep enjoying! Seeya Thursday for Part 7. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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