The quote comes from one of my favourite poets and artists, William Blake, but it seemed appropriate for this week’s episode of Kelly from Dan Goldman. Dan told me he was running later than usual with this episode partly because he was experimenting with the artwork and effectively showing an interpretation of Heaven. I love Dan’s art in Shooting War, but in Kelly on Act-I-Vate he’s really been able to cut loose on the artwork front, treating us to some fabulously colourful, imaginative and often almost psychedelic art – this week’s is the comics equivalent of kicking in the Doors to Perception (or maybe he has just had some spectacularly good drugs).
(inspired art or Dan Goldman on magic mushrooms, either way this week’s Kelly look spectacular)
I know ultimately Dan wants to bring Kelly into print, but if any publisher is interested in that idea, please, please, let him do it the way he needs to. I’d buy it. Sticking with the Dan theme, he’s just revamped his online store where you can pick up some cool prints of artwork from both Kelly and Shooting War, while he also tells me that Kelly’s home, the brilliantly diverse Act-I-Vate webcomics collective was included recently in PC Magazine’s Top 100 Best Unknown Websites list (as is the very geek-friendly and damned funny XKCD webcomic). I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that’s a site you really want to bookmark, folks, there’s a multiplicity of interesting comics work to be found there.
Fri, Aug 31, 2007
Comics and cartoons