Dan Goldman ([info]dangoldman) wrote in [info]act_i_vate,
@ 2007-08-09 15:38:00
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"KELLY": Fourteen Words


Get caught up on "KELLY" here

















Next week and all that.
----love---> d!



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[info]todfox
2007-08-09 07:50 pm UTC (link)
I like what you are doing with the series, but the archives are hard to use. I must have missed something and so I went to the archives, but there's no way to turn a page -- you have to click on each individual page, wait for it to load, hit close, click the next... This makes it really discouraging for me to catch up. Sorry ...

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Hmm.
[info]lx
2007-08-09 07:55 pm UTC (link)
When I opened up his Flash Archive, hovering at the right side of any given page produces a right-arrow to go forward. Ditto on the left to go back. Does that not come up for you?

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-09 07:55 pm UTC (link)
thanks man!

sorry you're having trouble with the archive page, here's the deal: you have to wait for the whole archive page to load, otherwise it just shows individual pages. once the whole shebang loads, it will run the entire act in a Lightbox gallery; it's actually really cool.

let me know if you're still having problems (you're not using IE, are you?)

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[info]todfox
2007-08-09 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Thanks I think it is working now. Maybe I was just being dense? :)

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-09 09:34 pm UTC (link)
i hear the same thing from lots of people; it's because of all the damn thumbnails... the Lightbox doesnt work until they all load.

you're perfect just the way you are.

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kill the nazi!!!
(Anonymous)
2008-11-04 09:41 pm UTC (link)
GOOD NIGHT WHITE PRIDE!!!

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[info]westival
2007-08-09 08:06 pm UTC (link)
"I have Gary! I have smelled cooter!"

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 01:00 pm UTC (link)
You sounded just like Young Kelly just.

I always crack up at those moments with too-young-to-be-anything-but-virgins proclaiming their sexual prowess; I hear kids say shit like that on the subway all the time and I remember doing that myself, bragging about "fingering" at the age of 9 in front of my day camp conselor, who rubbed my head and told me it was time for our ceramics workshop.

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did i not mention that?
[info]la_loba
2007-08-09 08:17 pm UTC (link)
". . . we hate niggers, spic, kikes, chinks, AND QUEERS"
they need a better screening process.

is it wrong for me to want them to bone?
i don't care if it's wrong, just make it happen!

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Re: did i not mention that?
[info]dangoldman
2007-08-09 09:35 pm UTC (link)
do you think you've figured out what happens yet?

i love that everyone is turned on by "KELLY" and there's hasn't been a lick of staight sex in the whole book (yet).

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[info]autodidactic
2007-08-09 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Poor guy. I too have crushed on a Nazi once.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-09 09:45 pm UTC (link)
We all make mistakes that for better or for worse turn us into who we've become. Mine have all been real humdingers.

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[info]benchilada
2007-08-09 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Kelly, some of us suspected...

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 12:52 pm UTC (link)
You suspected that Kelly was gay? I always thought that was on the table from the first time he answered the door and met Max with jizz on his t-shirt. The big reveal in this isn't actually about his sexuality, it's the tale of his tattoo as it relates to Max and Theresa hypnotized on the bedroom floor.

I'm already itchin' to tell Max and T's scar-stories next ;)

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[info]benchilada
2007-08-10 01:28 pm UTC (link)
I was kinda makin' a bit of a joke there, Admiral.

The tattoo bit was fascinating, particularly how he'd really no personality of his own back then, to the point that he'd let a fucking nut give him a prison tat in the middle of a forest.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 01:40 pm UTC (link)
My apopollyloggies; sarcasm + internet = durrhff??

Hmmm, I don't think his relationship to Gary is quite so empty-vessel, myself... I think Kelly is alone and afraid and finds himself really really attracted to someone who seems to be paying him alot of attention (albeit to serve a completely separate agenda).

When I was in high school, I was nearly almost talked into getting a skull tattoo by a girl I'd just met outside the 7-11 after a Fugazi show; she had giant dark eyes and dreadlocks and all judgment went south of the border. I didn't get the tattoo, and if I had I probably would've hooked up with her... but my hesitation read "not hardcore enough" and surely she found someone else who was.

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[info]iconotrast
2007-08-09 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Only Fags get boners when they get swastikas tattooed on their asses??

Uh oh!

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-09 11:47 pm UTC (link)
Do you need a HUG, Hamilton?

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(Anonymous)
2007-08-09 11:12 pm UTC (link)
...so says the man groping ass-flesh to do the tattoo he's got on his neck.

Of these last two installments, did you work on either of them while doing the Cintiq demo at SDCC? Some of the images look a little different than usual. Maybe I'm just not used to "Li'l Kelly." Evidently, neither is Gary. Hey-YO!

Ken A.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 12:55 pm UTC (link)
I don't really think Gary is enlightened or open-minded enough to see the sexiness on his ass-tattooing gesture; after all, homemade tattoos on the side of the road ain't for the dainty.

I designed Young Kelly at SDCC and drew some of the installment that posted on Monday during the Wacom demo; this chapter was all drawn at home sitting at my new drafting table.

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don't let this happen to you
[info]magicgravel
2007-08-10 12:11 am UTC (link)
don't let this happen to you.

http://maximusfugit.livejournal.com/96276.html?thread=238356#t238356

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Re: don't let this happen to you
[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 12:57 pm UTC (link)
Are you familiar with knife-fighting in DUNE? How the slow blade enters the shield? I have a tough time talking with people that closed-minded... racist or dogmatic or just ignant; I prefer to do my proselytizing through the language of comics.

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Re: don't let this happen to you
(Anonymous)
2007-08-11 06:49 am UTC (link)
Ugh, that's nasty. If he's so very informed, why doesn't he know there's no such thing as the Jewish "race," just an invention of the Romans that some more militant Jews have adopted? Because I'm pretty sure I don't come from the same gene pool as Ethiopian Jews, but they're no less and probably more Jew than me.

Reminds me of a conversation I overheard at the comic shop the other day, wherein one employee was ranting about how he hated Black Panther because "there's no such thing as a technologically-advanced African, just genocide and skinny kids with flies on their faces." Someone else hesitantly commented that his remarks might be construed as racist out of context; I jumped in that his remarks could be construed as racist IN context.

Oh, and he referred to Africa as a country. Simply lovely fellow. Apparently, he had no qualms with Luke Cage.

Ken A.

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Re: don't let this happen to you
[info]dangoldman
2007-08-11 12:52 pm UTC (link)
Great and frustrating story; again, I have difficulty with talk-to-my-dogmatic-hand mentality and tend to scream once or twice using philosophic sonar and then just walk away. Closed minds really frustrate me, not because they're WRONG but because I know on the whole people can be better, they are usually just too lazy to challenge their own belief frameworks and disassemble psychic scaffolding in attempt to build a better building. I don't try to convert people that way anymore; I'm a big believer in the first rule of creative writing, applied to life in general: SHOW DON'T TELL.

re: Jewish identity, have you read Doug Rushkoff's NOTHING SACRED? As a firmly non-practicing Jew and resolutely-DIY-spiritual-being, that book stirred up the silt at the bottom of my spiritual river last year in very unexpected ways. I just recently also read DERECH HASHEM by Rebbe Chaim Luzzatto while we were in Brazil this summer and it taught me some basics about Jewish cosmology that were advanced to my half-assed Conservative Jewish upbringing, more mystical levels to how thousands of years of Talmudic scholars view man/God/universe in relation to one another. The book is full of simple and deep wisdoms I had to take drugs to figure out; if I'd know they existed just below the surface in my native religion, I would've dug deeper as a young fella. Highly recommend both these reads. Mister Applebaum.

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Re: don't let this happen to you
(Anonymous)
2007-08-11 02:40 pm UTC (link)
Have I read NOTHING SACRED?

http://rushkoff.com/interviews/lifestyle.html
http://www.zeek.net/rush_0307.shtml

Ahem.

(The 2nd one was edited like shit, to the extent of changing the meaning and references of several items, but at least it gets my opinion on record.)

Like you, I was raised without a proper understanding of what Judaism was supposed to mean, which is all the more disappointing since I went to Hebrew School at what is probably the flagship of American Reform Judaism, Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. All flash, no bang. It wasn't until I read NOTHING SACRED in 2003 that I got everything I should have been learning in the nine years I was in Hebrew School. I remain unaffiliated to any particular path other than my own, but it's good to know that my starting point, at least as it was supposed to be, mightn't necessarily be so bad of an ending point, too.

Ken A.

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[info]sxyblkmn
2007-08-10 12:39 pm UTC (link)
this can only end in tears

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 12:58 pm UTC (link)
... but couldn't they be tears of JOY?

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[info]sxyblkmn
2007-08-10 05:49 pm UTC (link)
Lol, i was actually gonna say that at first but then thought: "nah, dan will do it for me" ;)

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[info]chipzdarsky
2007-08-10 03:40 pm UTC (link)
God damn this just gets better and better. I fuckin' love Lil' Kelly.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 03:45 pm UTC (link)
Thanks very much; it's going to get even better too.
Haven't heard from you in a while and figured you'd forgotten all about Kelly... makes me happy to know you're still reading, sweetums.

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[info]phraktalsnipe
2007-08-10 04:20 pm UTC (link)
lol -this is good stuff. Reminds me a lot of Jim Goad's "Trucker Fags in Denial". (or further back, I suppose it's in the same ballpark as Garth Ennis's "Dicks") - Regardless - great stuff.

If you've gotten any hate mail as a result of this strip, please post!

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-10 04:24 pm UTC (link)
Trucker Fags in Denial is certainly an influence (and a guilty pleasure)... but hate mail? For "KELLY"?
Not a lick...

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[info]jerem_morrow
2007-08-10 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha! Hilarious!

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-11 03:21 am UTC (link)
Kelly says to tell you that as long as his suffering causes you some small bit of pleasure, than it wasn't all for naught.

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[info]jerem_morrow
2007-08-11 03:32 am UTC (link)
Tell 'im his face at "Y-you've got a fucking boner..." has had me in stitches 3 times now.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-11 12:59 pm UTC (link)
he's nodding as he cries softly into a baby wipe.

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[info]mechamitzy
2007-08-11 01:55 pm UTC (link)
he's got a boner?! this whole frickin' series gives me 16 boners.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-11 02:15 pm UTC (link)
I'm putting a little tinfoil crown on your pretty head that reads "SWEET SIXTEEN BONERS"

do I hear 17? 17 boners?

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Coincidence
[info]c_andrew_s
2007-08-12 04:23 am UTC (link)
What a coincidence, I just got a "Kelly" Tattoo.

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Re: Coincidence
[info]dangoldman
2007-08-12 11:33 am UTC (link)
NICE BUM! You're not related to these guys are you? The resemblance is truly striking.

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Re: Coincidence
[info]c_andrew_s
2007-08-13 03:04 am UTC (link)
LOL... actually I am related to "Black Crow" http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/b/blackcrow.htm

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[info]man_size
2007-08-14 01:45 pm UTC (link)
I feel I have more in common with a Jack Kirby NEW GOD than I do with this trio of decadent freaks but goddammit if you aren't pulling all the stops on their decent. Only GOOD can come from all this bad.

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[info]dangoldman
2007-08-15 04:37 pm UTC (link)
the shuttle bus to Heaven always takes a direct route through Hell; that's a universal truth, ennit?

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