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Published: 2006-11-20 05:40:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 30221; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 249
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Here's Kelly Welly again, in full, glorious color.For those of you who do not partake of newspaper comic strips, Kelly is a character from Mark Trail, a godawful nature-themed strip which has been around for several decades (and got stuck in the 1950s or so). Kelly is a photojournalist for an outdoor magazine, but mainly gets herself kidnapped, chased by bears, etc.
The dialogue (balloons, lettering, and all) is lifted directly from the strip.
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And if you, too, like newspaper comics (or like to make fun of them), be sure to check out the highly hilarious Comics Curmudgeon: [link] ...without which I probably never would have thought to create this pic (don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing).
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I wouldn't mind seeing Abbey Spencer from "Judge Parker"; what a hottie.
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Yeah especially Neddy, Godiva and Sophie. Not to mention June Morgan from Rex Morgan.
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Thank you! 
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Just started reading it the other day. If I had known about it sooner, well, I would have been there a long, long time ago.
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Oh dear, now you've just opened the floodgates for Mark Trail fanart. Thanks a lot.
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But that can only lead to good things
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This is really awesome!
To truly get the Mark Trail feel to it one of the word balloons should be inexplicably coming from the beaver.
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Kelly is from a godawful newspaper comic strip called "Mark Trail"!
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Know where there are any other pics of her?
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She's pretty boring looking in the comic strip
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Amazingly, "Mark Trail" continues to exist and take up newspaper and web space
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Awazing how long many of those newspaper comics have lasted, especally the more soap opera-type ones.
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of course she is unperdictable she is standing like that, she must be
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Lovely!
Although it seems a tad... showy for being "stuck in the fifties." The picture is fantastic, I wish you could teach me how to better draw in a comic book(-esque?) style!
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Haha, thanks! The strip itself is totally stuck in the 50s... Kelly is quite conservatively dressed, etc... not to mention chronically helpless and manipulative. I took the liberty of modernizing, giving her a look more in line with what her character is implied to be
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Ah yes,
Fantastic job! The style and character shown in just one panel are superb!
Thank you.
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Found you by way of the Comics Curmudgeon, of course- great work.
-C
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Thanks for visiting and faving! Your work is gorgeous!
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There's Kelly Welly being foolish again . . .
Awesome picture.
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This is AMAZING. You succeed where the Mark Trail artist fails- everywhere.
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Aww, poor Elrod! Thanks!
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Can't beat the original dialogue! 
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Now if I could just do one of Mark looking really manly, punching some ne'er-do-well with facial hair....
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Because if they have facial hair, they must be EVIL! D:<
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I could be wrong, but that has got to be the most effort anyone has ever put into a Mark Trail related drawing. Great lookin' beaver too.
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Thanks for the fave
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I think I might be ashamed for thinking that picture is pretty hot..
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Don't be ashamed... Kelly's other function in the comic strip, aside from getting into trouble, is to be the hot chick.
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Who wears short-shorts?
Anyway, when I saw this the first thing that popped into my head was: 'Wow, that looks like a page out of an old school comic book... only without the suck!'
I like the beaver in the corner there, he looks annoyed.
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Thanks so much! I was vaguely thinking "classic pinup" so I'm glad a bit of that did come through. Kelly is actually dressed comically conservatively in the strip (except when portrayed lounging in her 1950s-style slip), although she's supposed to be the sexy character...
And the beaver is definitely feeling put upon in any number of ways.
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You have such a subtle and delightful sense of humor. I am smitten.
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And I am blushing! Thank you, so glad you like it
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Lovely colour work, and very nice BG too.
Watch out Kelly, you don't know if that beaver is going to attack you!
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Thanks, I appreciate it!
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This is so fabulous.
I love how awesomely bad the comics of yore were (holy frijoles, Rex Morgan, MD, I'm talking to you).
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Hee hee - thanks! You might like a funny website called The Comics Curmudgeon: [link] which lampoons the daily comic strips... with an especial fondness for all the old soap strips trying to hang in there (including Rex Morgan, Mary Worth, Apt. 3G... all of which, for some reason, still exist).
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